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James Whitcomb Riley - SongJames Whitcomb Riley - Song
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"Why do I sing--Tra-la-la-la-la!     Glad as a King?--Tra-la-la-la-la!       Well, since you ask,--       I have such a pleasant task,     I can not help but sing!     "Why do I smile--Tra-la-la-la-la!     Working the while?--Tra-la-la-la-la!       Work like this is play,--       So I`m playing all the day--     I can not help but smile!     "So, If you please--Tra-la-la-la-la!     Live at your ease!--Tra-la-la-la-la!       You`ve only got to turn,       And, you see, its bound to churn--     I can not help but please!" The farmer pondered and scratched his head,   Reading over each mystic word.-- "Some o` the Dreamer`s work!" he said--   "Ah, here`s more--and name and date In his hand-write`!"--And the good man read,-- "`Patent applied for, July third,   Eighteen hundred and forty-eight`!" The fragment fell from his nerveless grasp-- His awed lips thrilled with the joyous gasp:   "I see the p`int to the whole concern,--   He`s studied out a patent churn!"
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