I am just content to be a dreamer
 Even if I could afford a steamer
 I will take the ferry boat every time

 I love to ride the ferry
 Where music is so merry
 There's a man who plays the concertina
 On the moonlit upper deck arena

 While boys and girls are dancing
 While sweethearts are romancing
 Life is like a mardi-gras
 Funiculi, funicula

 Happy, we cling together
 Happy, we sing together
 Happy, with the ferry boat serenade

 I am happy, very, very happy
 When we're on the ferry
 The music is so merry
 There's a man who plays the concertina
 On the moonlit upper deck arena, arena

 I love to ride the ferry
 Where music is so merry
 There's a man who always plays the concertina, oh my
 On the moonlit upper deck arena, by and by

 While the boys and girls are dancing, oh dancing
 While, while the sweethearts are romancing
 Life is like a mardi-gras
 Funiculi, funicula

 Happy, we cling together
 Happy, we sing together
 Happy with the ferry boat serenade

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 I love to ride the ferry
 Sailing, sailing where, where the music is so merry
 There's a man who just plays the concertina
 On the moonlit upper deck arena

 All the while the boys and girls are dancing
 Look around and you see sweethearts romancing
 Life is like a mardi-gras
 Funiculi, funicula

 Happy, we cling together
 Happy, we sing together
 Happy, with the ferry boat serenade