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Happiness

from Now We Are Schwa by Schwa

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The lyrics for 'Happiness' were drawn from ‘Thirty Three Moments of Happiness’ by Chin Shengt'an (The Knapsack, ed. Herbert Read)

lyrics

I go out bare-footed holding a parasol,
to see the children singing as they tread the water-wheel.
Ah, is this not happiness?

To cut with a knife a bright green water-melon
on a summer's afternoon.
Ah, is this not happiness?

To discover accidentally in an unexpected place
a letter from an old friend. It makes you laugh.
Ah, is this not happiness?

I am drinking on a winter's night and note it's turning cold.
I open a window. Snowflakes are drifting down.
Ah, is this not happiness?

To return from a foreign journey, come through the towngate
To hear familiar voices speaking your dialect.
Ah, is this not happiness?

I lie in bed in the morning after one whole month of rain.
Today the birds are singing. A change in the air.
Ah, is this not happiness?

A friend I haven't seen for years turns up at sunset.
We repair to the inner chamber with a gallon of wine.
Ah, is this not happiness?

It's a hot day in June, not a whiff of breeze in the air.
Suddenly a rumble of thunder. Cool rain comes down.
Ah, is this not happiness?

credits

from Now We Are Schwa, released April 6, 2016
Peter Spafford - vocals, Roland electric piano
Richard Ormrod - acoustic bass guitars, vocals

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Schwa Leeds, UK

Welcome in Schwa: Peter Spafford writes poetry and plays the piano; Richard Ormrod plays other instruments and arranges tunes. More recently, Jacqui Wicks sings and plays the ukulele.

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