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Song Information:

I'll record this again, later, as a slighly faster version, and junk the voice and guitars.

For copyright reasons, this song may not be played in the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, nor in the Netherlands Antilles between the hours of sunset and sunrise.

Song Lyrics:

Early in the morning just lying here droswily,
or later in the arvo when there's nothing on TV--
it might set a man to wonder how hard it could be.

Yet another lonely day now passes languidly,
but I'm far too idle to have a case of accidie;
I thought I might as well make a twelve-bar blues (in E)
[and, coincidentally, this is also the key].

How hard, how hard, how hard, how hard, how hard can it be?
oh, how hard, how hard, how hard, how hard, how hard can it be?
It might set a man to wonder how hard it could be.

Send a corps of soldiers for to set the country free;
and kill some people there just to further democracy--
it might set a man to wonder how hard it could be.

They're wrong who say that all rivers run down to the sea,
and there are none so blind, you know, as those who will not see.
If I were a ruler I'd do things differently.

How hard, &c.

It irks me when I hear "one year anniversary"*
or when people can't learn how to use an apostrophe--
it might set a man to wonder how hard it could be.

How hard, &c.

(You may think these lines are assembled haphazardly
but I'd not dream of doing so unintentionally.)


* for, since anniversary means that a year has
turned, "first anniversary" would suffice, surely;
one may also encounter the modern, catachrestic
celebration of an "anniversary" after only a month.