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Drive Dull Care Away 
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Drive Dull Care Away 
Why should we of our lot complain Or grieve at our distress? Some think if riches they could gain T'would be true happiness Alas in vain is all their strife Life's cares will not allay, 
So while we're here with our friends so dear We'll drive dull care away. Away, away, away away. We will drive dull care away. So while we're here with our friends so dear We'll drive dull care away. 
Why should the rich despise the poor? Why should the poor repine? While in a few short years we shall In equal friends bind. They're both to blame, they're all the same We are all made of one clay, 
The only circumstance in life That ever I could find, To conquer care and temper strife Was a contented mind. With this in store we have much more Than all things else convey, 
So always make the best of life Nor render it a curse, But take it as you would a wife For better or for worse. Life at its best is but a jest, Like a dreary winter's day, 
Recorded by Joe Hickerson