Who wants to fish in dreary daily life
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For cheerfulness and fun
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Can just as well at merry tables
Sit with a brimming glass
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Whoever thinks they've no choice
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Should rather flee into good cheer
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Because our life is, after all
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On loan for an unknown time
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Raise the mugs round the circle
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Rinse the lie out of your mouth
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That you've got to take life as it is
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Raise the mugs and, together
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We celebrate the happy news
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Life has to take you
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It can't make sense to work yourself ragged
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To soak the world in gray
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To bind yourself to transience
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And wrangle over property and goods
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It can't make sense to freeze up
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When you're sick of the daily wage
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There's no use in hanging on
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When you've a mind that's made to dream
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Raise the mugs round the circle
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Rinse the lie out of your mouth
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That you've got to take life as it is
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Raise the mugs and, together
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We celebrate the happy news
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Life has to take you
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So I celebrate whenever I please
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Whenever a reason shows up
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And if worry has me in its spell
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I strike up a little song
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And if gloom wants to beat me
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I dance till my legs take flight
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And if loneliness weighs too heavy
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I wish the barmaid here
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And if the barmaid leaves me alone
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Then wine shall be my sweetheart
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Raise the mugs round the circle
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Rinse the lie out of your mouth
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That you've got to take life as it is
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Raise the mugs and, together
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We celebrate the happy news
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Life has to take you
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Raise the mugs round the circle
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Rinse the lie out of your mouth
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That you've got to take life as it is
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Raise the mugs and, together
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We celebrate the happy news
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Life has to take you