Could be worse.
Could be raining....
Kenny Roberts began a daily cartoon show on WNEM TV-5 in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1961, as "The Kenny Roberts Show" where he was known as "The Yodeling Cowboy." The popular black-and-white show featured Roberts singing and playing guitar as he hosted children in the studio, and presented cartoons. His best-known locally-performed song was "Cheer Up, Things Could Be Worse."
I was one of the kids in the studio in 1962 ... I remember him as "The Jumpin' Cowboy".
Cheer up! Things could be worse.
Cheer up! You've got no need to curse.
They said that I should cheer up,
That things could be much worse,
So I cheered up;
Sure enough ... things got worse.