Paddle Your Own Canoe

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I've traveled about a bit in me 
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time, of troubles I've seen a few
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I found it far better in every 
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clime to paddle me own canoe
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Me wants they are small I care not
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 at all, me debts they are paid 
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when due
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I drive away strife from the ocean
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 of life and paddle me own canoe

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And I have no wife to bother me 
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life, no lover to prove untrue
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The whole day long I laugh with 
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the song and paddle me own canoe

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So love everybody, trust only the 
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few as the world you go travelling 
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through
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And never sit down with a tear and
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 a frown, but paddle your own canoe
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I rise with the lark from daylight
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 to dark, I do what I have to do
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I'm careless in wealth, I've only 
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me health to paddle me own canoe

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And I have no wife to bother me 
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life, no lover to prove untrue
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The whole day long I laugh with 
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the song and paddle me own canoe

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It's all very well to depend on a 
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friend, that is if you proved him 
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true
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You'll find it better by far in 
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the end to paddle your own canoe
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To borrow is dearer by far than to
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 buy, a saying though old still 
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true
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You never will sigh if you only 
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will try to paddle your own canoe

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And I have no wife to bother me 
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life, no lover to prove untrue
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The whole day long I laugh with 
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the song and paddle me own canoe

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Though England has ruled our small
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 little land and many's the 
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country, too
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Just take my advice and never 
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think twice to paddle your own canoe
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It's better I say to make your own
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 way as the world you go travelling
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 through
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You never will sigh if you only 
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will try to paddle your own canoe

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And I have no wife to bother me 
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life, no lover to prove untrue
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The whole day long I laugh with 
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the song and paddle me own canoe