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Intro

The higher that the monkey can climb, the more he shows his tail

Call no man happy till he dies, there's no milk at the bottom of the pail

God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel

like the thistles that are growing on the trunk of a tree

All the good in the world you can put inside a thimble

And still have room for you and me

If there's one thing you can say about mankind

There's nothing kind about man

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork

But it always comes roaring back again

Misery's the river of the world

Misery's the river of the world

Misery's the river of the world

The higher that the monkey can climb, the more he shows his tail

Call no man happy till he dies, there's no milk at the bottom of the pail

God tempers all the ruins for the new shorn lands

The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand

All the good in the world you can put inside a thimble

And still have room for you and me

If there's one thing you can say about mankind

There's nothing kind about man

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork

But it always comes roaring back again

For want of a bird the sky was lost, for want of a nail the shoe was lost

For want of a life a life was lost for want of a toy a child was lost

And misery's the river of the world

Misery's the river of the world

Everybody row, everybody row

Misery's the river of the word

Misery's the river of the world

Misery's the river of the world

Everybody row, everybody row

Everybody row, everybody row

Misery's the river of the world

Misery's the river of the world

Everybody row, everybody row

Everybody row, everybody row

Everybody row

Misery's the river of the world

Misery's the river of the world

Misery's the river of the world

Misery's the river of the world

Everybody row, everybody

Everybody row