Broadside ballad entitled 'Don't Sit Down and Grumble'

Transcription

DON'T SIT DOWN
AND GRUMBLE,

Written Composed and sung by TOM GLEN.

THIS POPULAR SONG CAN ALWAYS BE HAD POET'S Box,
OVERGATE, DUNDEE,

There's people in this world, who though,
Possesed of strenth and health;
Will sit and sigh and grumble,
Because they have not wealth;
Instiad of trying to win it,
They're time they wile away,
When people such as these I meet,
To them these words I say.

CHORUS.

Don't sit and grumble,
Tho' you happen to be poor;
But joyfuly remember.
That there's bitter days in store.
Tho' the present may look gloomy.
The future may be bright:
And you may yet be prosperious,
If you strive with all your might.

Its foolishness to sit and greive,
Because dime fortune on you frowns;
For there's very few glides through this world,
Without they're ups and downs.
Through fortune be against you,
You shold strive with heart and will;
To overcome all obstials,
While journeying up life's hill.

Chorus.

Pluck up courage don't dispair,
And let your motto be;
Onwards, and you soon will gain,
The top branch of the tree,
Though oppressed by poverty,
To sorrow don't give way :
But face it beldly lake a man,
And remember what I say?'

Chorus.

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