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Why Should We Quarrel For Riches Lyrics courtesy of www.sailorsongs.com How pleasant a sailor's life passes Who roams o'er the watery main No treasure he ever amasses But cheerfully spends all his gain We're strangers to party and faction To honor and honesty true And would not commit a bad action For power or profit in view CHORUS after each verse: The world is a beautiful garden Enriched with the blessings of life The toiler with plenty rewarding Which plenty too often breeds strife When terrible tempests assail us And mountainous billows affright No grandeur or wealth can avail us But skilful industry steers right The courtier's more subject to dangers Who rules at the helm of the state Than we that, to politics strangers Escape the snares laid for the great The various blessings of nature In various nations we try No mortals than us can be greater Who merrily live till we die Lyrics courtesy of www.sailorsongs.com |
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