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Text:Be Happy

68. Be Happy

1 Be happy, be happy! for bright is the earth
With sunshine and music and love;
Each day it grows richer in wisdom and worth,
And more like sweet heaven above.

Refrain:
Then let us be happy!
Sunny and bright in the face;
Oh let us be happy?
Earth is a beautiful place.

2 Be happy, be happy! for fountains most sweet
Are gushing along the bright year,
And pathways all pleasant are waiting our feet,
With joys more abundant than tears. [Refrain]

3 Be happy, be happy,
Who loves the black clouds,
Which lower in their bodding so deep?
'Tis better to walk in bright raiments than shrouds,
'Tis better to smile than to weep. [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: Be happy, be happy! for bright is the earth
Title: Be Happy
Language: English
Publication Date: 1960
Tune Information
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