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Take off your old coat and roll up your sleeves, |
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Life is a hard road to travel, I believe. |
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I look to the east, I look to the west, |
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A youth asking fate to be rewardin'. |
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But fortune is a blind god, flying through the clouds, |
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And forgettin' me on this side of jordan. |
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Take off your old coat and roll up your sleeves, |
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Life is a hard road to travel, I believe. |
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Silver spoons to some mouths, golden spoons to others, |
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Dare a man to change the given order. |
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Though they smile and tell us all of us are brothers, |
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Never was it true this side of jordan. |
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Take off your old coat and roll up your sleeves, |
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Life is a hard road to travel, I believe. |
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Like some ragged owlet with it's wings expanded, |
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Nailed to some garden gate or boardin'. |
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Thus will I by some men all my life be branded |
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Never hurted none this side of jordan. |
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Take off your old coat and roll up your sleeves, |
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Life is a hard road to travel, I believe. |