LYRIC FOR SALE

By TheFreeMan

A Grouse House
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I think it’d be grouse to live in a house,
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To live in a house in the woods,
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I think it’d be great to live by a lake,
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To live in a house by the lake in the woods,
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And it wouldn’t do any harm to have a bit of a farm,
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A bit of a farm near the lake by my house,
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I could have my fruit trees (someone else can keep bees!)
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That would be my greatest grouse house.

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It’d have to be warm where there’s nary a storm,
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(And nary a bad flood of course!)
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No bushfire and no hail, drive in to town to get mail
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(Or borrow the neighbour’s old horse)
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I could live there all alone and write poem after poem
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(And maybe one day a short book)
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It would be ever so grouse in my lakeside farmhouse
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Where on my little wood stove I would then cook
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Up a storm just for me so on my poetry I could continue to toil
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(When I’m not tending my trees (and avoiding them bees!) and
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planting my own veggie seeds in the soil!)

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This may seem to you just like the hard work that you try so hard
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to shirk away from,
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But a house by a lake with my own home-grown food to partake
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Would to me be a very grouse dream-house to dream on!