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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=579223" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>There Is More To Life Than Hard Work</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can't say my life's been a great life that I've been there and I've done that<br>But I worked in pipe laying crew for Michael Kelleher in Buninyong near Ballarat<br>And I worked in the late eighties for a firm called C.D.L.<br>Jack hammering in the heat of Summer when the days were hot as hell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">101 Collins Street Melbourne I remember that address<br>Not that I enjoyed the work there I remember none the less<br>Up each morning at five thirty then to work on tram I'd go<br>And left that building site each evening covered in dust head to toe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another four years as tree clearer up by powerlines clearing trees<br>Operating a cherry picker for such you don't need degrees<br>For a Travel tower company a growing concern managed by a greedy lot<br>They still owe me two weeks wages something I have not forgot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Up working mornings at five thirty between work and travel a twelve hour day<br>Whilst my so called bosses made their millions I took home bare living pay<br>Now I take it nice and easy and I'm well off now as I was then<br>If your bosses make their millions for you there can't be a win</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I worked as tree feller in Ireland far away and long ago<br>In the high woods by the mountains where the peaks wear hats of snow<br>Most Winter days were wet and chilly up to April not much sunshine<br>Only sound the cold wind soughing in the larch and spruce and pine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Hard work never did anybody harm' to coin that phrase it took a fool<br>Hard work your life's bound to shorten you can overwork a mule<br>Hard working Joe is dead at fifty, Pete on welfare living on<br>Pete five years older and quite healthy he's still here and Joe is gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maybe I've drudged for a few years but I'm not proud of that at all<br>And if my life has got one highlight such as now I can't recall<br>And if one tell me how hard he work I tell him my watch is slow<br>And I'm late for an appointment 'see you later got to go'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Ned the basher' at his local like to sing his praises loud<br>And boast of the hard work he's done to an uninterested crowd, <br>He's proud to show his work callouses he must have an empty life<br>But he never once did mention how he often beats his wife</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is more to life than hard work, work to live but not to die<br>And if you labour hard poor fellow life you never can enjoy<br>If your boss is making millions and you take home bare living pay<br>Maybe you should have a re-think and perhaps give the job away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q>
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