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T:The Bold Fisherman
S:Harry Holman, Copthorne, Surrey
B:"The Life of a Man", EFDS Publication, 1972
Z:Ken Stubbs
F: http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
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w:As I was a-walk-ing one morn--ing at ease, 
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w:A-view-ing the leaves as they hung from the trees,
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w: They were all in full mo-tion or ap-pear--ing to be, 
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w:And_ those that were with-er'd, they fell from the tree. 
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w:Then what is the life of a man, an-y more_ than the leaves, 
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w:A man has his sea-sons,* so why should he grieve; 
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w:Even though in this wide world he ap-pears bright and gay, 
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w:Like the leaves we shall wi-ther and soon fade a-way.