Life Is A Toil Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
[G]As I was a -walkin',
I [C]passed by a [G]window
And [D]saw an old woman,
the picture of [G]gloom
And this is the song
the old [C]lady was hum[G]min'
As [D]backward and forward
she wielded her [G]broom
Oh, life is a toil and [B]love is a trouble
[Em]Beauty will fade and r[D]iches will flee
Pleas[G]ures they dwindle
and [C]prices they [G]double
And [D]nothing is what we could
wish it to [G]be
There's too much of sewing
goes [C]into a bon[G]net
There's [D]too much of ironing
goes into a [G]shirt
There's nothing worth all of
the [C]time you waste [G]on it
And [D]nothing that lasts us
but rubble and [G]dirt
Pull weeds all the summer,
rake [C]leaves in Septem[G]ber
The [D]midsummer breezes
are loaded with [G]dust
It's snow all the winter and
[C]rain in Novem[G]ber
The [D]wallpaper rots and the
candlestick [G]rusts
Oh, life is a toil and [B]love is a trouble
[Em]Beauty will fade and r[D]iches will flee
Pleas[G]ures they dwindle
and [C]prices they [G]double
And [D]nothing is what we
could wish it to [G]be[D][G]
The old woman grew tired
of [C]sweeping and [G]scrubbing
She [D]lay down and died
and I thought was it [G]just
That she who so long
had [C]wielded the dust[G]er
Should her[D]self in the end
be turned into [G]dust
Oh, life is a toil and [B]love is a trouble
[Em]Beauty will fade and
[D]riches will flee
[G]Pleasures they dwindle
and [C]prizes they [G]double
And [D]nothing is what we could wish it to [G]be

[Outro 1]
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