HIGH VOICB

The Pessimist

Words by Benjamin King

for high voice and piano

by

Peter Wishart

Jackdaws Publications
Great Elm, Frome, Somerset. BA11 3NY
 for Maureen
The Pessimist
Benjamin King (1 857- 1 894) Peter Wishart (1921-1 984)

Voice

No-thing to do but work, no-thingto eat but food. No-thing to wear butclothes to

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No-thingtobreathebut air, quickas a flash'tis gone,

No-where to fall

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 No-thing to comb no-where to sleep- but in bed, No-thing to weep-

buttears, no-thingto bu dead. No-thing to sing, butsongs,

ah!- las- No-where to go but out, no - where to come but

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 back. No-thing to see but sights, no-thing to quench but thirst,

No-thingto have butwhat we've got, thus through life wetre cursed.

No-thing to strikebut a Ev'-ry-thingmoves thatgoes, No-thing at all but com- mon

sense can e- ver with - stand these-

lSth August 1964, HarnPstead

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