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Desiderata by Max Ehrmann (opens the original)
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This song is an adaptation of the poem, Disiderata, by Max Ehrmann. Desiderata lyrics Go placidly amid the noiseThe noise and the hasteRemember what peace there may beIn silence, in silence As far as possible without surrenderBe on good terms with all persons Speak your truth quietly and clearlyAnd listen to othersEven the dull and the ignorantThey too have their story Avoid loud and aggressive personsThey are vexations to the spirit If you compare yourself with othersYou may become vain and bit
Daffodils by William Wordsworth (opens the original)
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This country ballad turns William Wordsworth’s Daffodils poem into a country ballad. Daffodils lyrics I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o’er vales and hillsWhen all at once I saw a crowdA host, of golden daffodilsBeside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the milky wayThey stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bayTen thousand saw I at a glanceTossing their heads in sprightly dance The waves
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? Ballad (opens the original)
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William Shakespeare’s sonnet, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? reimagined as a country ballad. I hope you enjoy it. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? lyrics Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperateRough winds do shake the darling buds of MayAnd summer’s lease hath all too short a date Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shinesAnd often is his gold complexion dimmedAnd every fair from fair sometime declinesBy chance or nature’s changing course unt
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