| If I could choose the life I please
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| Then I would be a boatman
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| On the canals and the rivers free
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| No hasty words are spoken
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| My only law is the river breeze
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| That takes me to the open seas
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| If I could choose the life I please
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| Then, I would be a boatman
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| If I could choose the life I please
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| Then I would be a rower
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| And if the road was not for me
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| Then, I would choose another
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| Cross mountains and the valleys deep
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| Where I would take these weary feet
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| If I could choose the life I please
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| Then, I would be a rower
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| But these things they’re so hard for me
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| I cannot choose my own destiny
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| And all the things that I want to see
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| Are so unclean
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| Well, I wish I could choose the life I please
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| But I am not a free man
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| Others rule my destiny
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| But my will’s never broken
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| I know someday, I will be
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| Everything that I dreamed, I’d be
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| And when I live the life I please
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| Then, I will be a freeman
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| I know someday, I will be
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| Everything that I dreamed, I’d be
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| And when I live the life I please
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| Then, I will be a freeman
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| And when I live the life I please
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| Then, I will be a freeman |