"Ain't It Funny What a Difference Just a Few Hours Make" is a popular song, introduced in the 1904 Broadway show The Yankee Consul, and briefly becoming a standard.
The song is a lament by Abijah Booze, the American Consul in Puerto Plata, who regrets having to rise early. Booze's role in the premier was played by Raymond Hitchcock, his first starring role. The title is a refrain found throughout the song:
- Ain't it funny what a difference just a few hours make?
Although almost completely forgotten today, A version of the song by a popular singer of the time known as Billy Murray is downloadable at several websites. His version was released by Victor Records.
Famous quotes containing the words funny, difference and/or hours:
“When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it’s just wonderful.”
—François Truffaut (1932–1984)
“There can be no difference anywhere that doesn’t make a difference elsewhere—no difference in abstract truth that doesn’t express itself in a difference in concrete fact and in conduct consequent upon that fact, imposed on somebody, somehow, somewhere, and somewhen.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“O! grief hath changed me since you saw me last,
And careful hours with time’s deformèd hand
Have written strange defeatures in my face.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)