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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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