Misery's The River Of The World

Intro: N.C(Fm)   The higher that the monkey can climb the more he shows his tail   Call no man happy till he dies there’s no milk at the bottom of the pail   God builds a church the devil builds a chapel    like the thistles that are growing on the trunk of a tree   All the good in the world you can put inside a thimble    And still have room for you and me   If there’s one thing you can say about mankind    There’s nothing kind about man   You can drive out nature with a pitch fork   But it always comes roaring back again   Misery’s the river of the world    Misery’s the river of the world   Misery’s the river of the world                      The higher that the monkey can climb the more he shows his tail   Call no man happy till he dies there’s no milk at the bottom of the pail   God tempers all the ruins for the new shorn lands   The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand   All the good in the world you can put inside a thimble    And still have room for you and me   If there’s one thing you can say about mankind    There’s nothing kind about man   You can drive out nature with a pitch fork   But it always comes roaring back again   For want of a bird the sky was lost for want of a nail the shoe   was lost   For want of a life a life was lost for want of a toy a child was lost   And misery’s the river of the world   Misery’s the river of the world    Everybody row everybody row   Misery’s the river of the word   Misery’s the river of the world   Misery’s the river of the world   Everybody row everybody row    Everybody row everybody row   Misery’s the river of the world   Misery’s the river of the world   Everybody row everybody row   Everybody row everybody row   Everybody row   Misery’s the river of the world   Misery’s the river of the world   Misery’s the river of the world   Misery’s the river of the world   Everybody row everybody                        (fades)   Everybody row