====== #495 - Pretty as a Butterfly ======
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  *Composer:
    *++Bobby Newcomb|{{search>"Bobby Newcomb" @cobs}}++, 1882
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  *[[:incipit|Condensed Incipit]]: 34565451
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
Pretty, as a butterfly, that's shining in the sun;\\
Sipping all the flowers where there's honey or there's none.\\
How I wish that I could live as happy and as free,\\
Like a pretty butterfly, or else a humming bee!\\
Glancing in the warm rays merrily, the day\\
It never seems to linger, for it quickly goes away;\\
nothing in a lifetime seems to be as free\\
As a pretty butterfly, or else a humming bee. Oh!\\
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Pretty, as a butterfly, that's shining in the sun;\\
Sipping all the flowers where there's honey or there's none.\\
How I wish that I could live as happy and as free,\\
Like a pretty butterfly, or else a humming bee!\\
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When my heart is laden with its sorrow or its care,\\
I watch the pretty butterflies that flutter in the air;\\
I know that they are happy, and I wonder why not I,\\
Nothing seems so merry as a pretty butterfly.\\
First they woo the daisies, then a blushing rose,\\
Flirting in the sunny rays with every floer that grows;\\
How I oft in envy wish that I could be\\
As happy as a pretty butterfly, or else a humming bee. Oh!\\
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Down a shady leafy lane there dwells a little maid,\\
Upon my heart her loving eyes have made a tender raid;\\
In the quiet evening, when I pass her cottage door,\\
She throws a kiss to bid me hope while I return a score!\\
I wish she was a wild rose and I a butterfly,\\
In the shady leafy lane to her I quickly fly;\\
Telling her I loved her all the whole day long--\\
Life would only seem to me a tender loving song. Oh!\\
\\
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    *++Bobby Newcomb|{{search>"Bobby Newcomb" @cobs}}++, 1882