FAWM 2026 / Song 6 Instrument: spruce and mahogany tenor ukulele tuned low GCEA

The hook/title line popped into my head and I thought about a songwriter I revere — how might he approach this one? Then added the detail of my dinner the other night and how broke my family is in part due to the terrifying medical bills I have accrued being told I need biopsies to test for breast cancer (so far no cancer found, but tests are ongoing). Scary feeling. Sometimes you have to make your own happy. Some character elements/details are fiction here, but I tried to write something true and grounded in daily living.

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Winter I got all those tests Ended up alive but broke Beans and rice and salsa in a bowl Sleep is medicine, I said Really I was sad Still, I kept on loving you Oh, you saw me through Four wheels spinning on the road to bad

Sometimes it takes just a little too long Sometimes the dark Gets all wrong before dawn But you never did even one thing by half Got hard up for happy and just had to laugh

I’d try to hold it in sometimes As things got wrecked and raw You told a joke once turned a funeral I have dropped my share of tears Til I bored myself You wait ‘em out then dry ‘em out Look around for something else And funny somehow always mostly helps

Sometimes it takes just a little too long Sometimes the dark Gets all wrong before dawn But you never did even one thing by half Got hard up for happy and just had to laugh

Cause the world won’t give it to us I remember you said that We gotta make our own mood up Go head and cry until you laugh, n laugh n laugh

I don’t see running out of woe But mud’s no good to swallow ‘Nother thing’ll come around tomorrow Like to break me when you went One day, I’ll go too The thing that I remember best Nights when I am short on rest Is laughing in the face of that with you

Sometimes it takes just a little too long Sometimes the dark Gets all wrong before dawn But you never did even one thing by half Got hard up for happy and just had to laugh

Got hard up for happy and just had to laugh