| Milk the cows of gladness, before they all run dry
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| Search the rim of madness, before you lean and sigh
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| Become a parch of dryness, before you stoop to drink
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| Ascend the arch of whyness, before you try to think
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| Now lay me down, lay me down
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| Churn the butter of happiness. |
| And be my guest
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| Milk the cows of gladness
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| Put them out, out to pasture, beneath the olive trees
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| That line the hillsides of a distant gracefulness
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| So they might feed and flourish in abundance
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| And you and I may live
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| Dye the shirt of wisdom, the colors of the west
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| Approach the skirt of isdom, with waves that mount and crest
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| Feed the hay of havoc, to the mouths that starve for such
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| And milk the cows of gladness, with a firm and gentle touch
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| Now lay me down, lay me down
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| Churn the butter of happiness. |
| And be my guest
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| Milk the cows of gladness
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| Put them out, out to pasture, beneath the olive trees
|
| That line the hillsides of a distant gracefulness
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| So they might feed and flourish in abundance
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| And you and I may live |