| Why spend your leisure bereft of pleasure
| Why spend your leisure bereft of pleasure
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| A massing treasure, why scrape and save?
| A massing treasure, why scrape and save?
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| Why look so canny at every penny?
| Why look so canny at every penny?
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| You’ll take no money within the grave
| You’ll take no money within the grave
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| Landlords and gentry with all their plenty
| Landlords and gentry with all their plenty
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| Must still go empty where ever they’re bound
| Must still go empty where ever they’re bound
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| So to my thinking we’d best be drinking
| So to my thinking we’d best be drinking
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| Our glasses clinking and round and round
| Our glasses clinking and round and round
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| King Solomon’s glory, so famed in story
| King Solomon’s glory, so famed in story
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| Was far outshone by the lilies guise
| Was far outshone by the guise lilies
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| But hard winds harden, both field and garden
| But hard winds harden, both field and garden
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| Pleading for pardon, the lily dies
| Pleading for pardon, the lily dies
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| Life’s but a bauble of toil and trouble
| Life’s but a bauble of toil and trouble
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| The feathered arrow, once shot, never found
| The feathered arrow, once shot, never found
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| So, lads and lasses because life passes
| So, lads and lasses because life passes
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| Come fill your glasses for another round | Come fill your glasses for another round |