IF AT FIRST

If at first you don't succeed try try again 
When did this first happen and tell me when
Was it the time when I tried to hang a door
Doing some tiling perhaps on the kitchen floor 

Maybe the saying was when I tried to cook 
The meal was ruined just my rotten luck 
I kept trying to make the perfect poem rhyme 
Nothing kept happening time after time 

Whenever this saying first started I don't know
So many stories as this poem will clearly show
I will keep trying and eventually I'll find 
This stupid saying will slip from my mind