What's the Life of a Man

Words and music are in Bob Copper's book Early to Rise .

As I was a-walking one morning at ease
Viewing the leaves as they fell from the trees,
They were all in full motion appearing to be,
And those that were withered they fell from the tree.

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What's the life of a man any more than a leaf?
A man has his seasons, so why should he grieve?
Although in this wide world he appears fine and gay,
Like a leaf he shall wither and soon fade away.

You should have seen the leaves but a short time ago
They were all in full motion appearing to grow,
Till the frost came and bit them and withered them all,
And the storm came upon them and down they did fall.
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Down in yonder churchyard many names you will see
They have fallen from this world as th leaves from the tree;
Old age and affliction upon them did fall,
And death and disease came and blighted them all.
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