All I'm asking isn't much
What's instead of all this sadness
From a man a little gladness
Is that asking very much
Is that asking such a much
One right is guaranteed to everybody
To call his short, unhappy life his own,
To take a bit of pleasure with the shoddy,
And when he asks for bread to eat,
not get a stone,
This hu man right belongs to everybody.
But sad to say it never yet has happened,
That things should go the way
they ought to go.
Who wouldn't want a little
de cent treatment?
It seems that circumstance won't have it so.
I would gladly give to you
anything your heart desired.
Oh, I swear I'd be inspired.
It would give me pleasure too.
It would give me pleasure too.
We crave to be more kindly than we are
Give gladly to the poor because
it's right
If all our kind his kingdom isn't far
Who wouldn't wish to
bask beneath his light?
We crave to be more kindly than we are.
But sad to say the chances happen nev er.
You have to reach
up high and man is low.
We'd all be glad to live in
peace forever.
It seems that circumstance
won't have it so.
Who has to say he tells the truth?
The world is mean and man uncouth.
Of course I'm telling you the truth.
The world is mean and man uncouth.
To be a glow, instead of low,
but you know
circumstance won't have it so.
To be a glow, instead of low,
but you know
circumstance won't have it so.
nothing much will help a lot
and you can toss it in the pot.
The world is mean and man uncouth
and sad to say I tell the truth.
It always happens that way,
it always happens that way.
And nothing much will help a lot
and you can toss it in the pot.
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