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Happy-Go-Lucky

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I can't get up with the chickens;     I can't get up at dark:     And what do I care for the early worm?     And what do I care for the lark?     I can't do this or that thing;     I can't do things like you;     And the thing that I do most frequent     Is the thing I never do.     I can't go where I would go,     Though I go from morn till eve;     But some place I go wherever I go     Whenever a place I leave.     For the law of the road is this law,     And the law is right and good:     Just go your ways and take no heed     Of how you get your food.     And the law of the road is this law,     And the law is one to keep:     It never matters, wherever you are,     So you have a place to sleep.     And the law of the road is this law,     And the law may it grow and grow!     Wherever you go and whatever you do     Let no one ever know.

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