R: Joy is in the ears that hear
   Let it's song succeed
   Laughter is the bane of fear
   And all the hope we need

1. Let all who are most serious
   And fearful on this day
   Take lessons from our Giant friends
   Or children at their play
   For ever in the midst of woe
   It helps if we recall
   That laughter is a medicine
   More potent than them all
R:

2. When all our banners dragged the dust
   And all our hands were chained
   In haunted caverns of the earth
   Our laughter yet remained
   And ever as we lost our dreams
   The joy would bid them nigh
   Until at last we left the dark
   And laughed beneath the sky
R:

3. Though ever in this darkling world
   Our enemies grow strong
   It helps us to remember
   That their reign cannot be long
   And though it seems forever
   As we hold them still at bay
   It helps to know that laughter
   Is forever and a day