They always get a potfull-but they never get a pot of gold
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But they're to it and at it at it and to it-
Ya gotta tune your attitude in
If ya don't get at it when ya get to it -
Ya won't get to it to get at it againx2

A guy from old New Brunswick He couldn't even pay his rent
We don't know how he travelled But we all know where he went
He was-
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A girl from old spud Island-Old Potato lips
She married a Newfoundlander and they lived on Fish and Chips
But they were-
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A guy from Nova Scotia,  He can't afford the train-
He's sittin on a streetcar, but he's eastbound just the same
He's-
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A Frenchman from the Gaspe said "Frogs don't like smog!"
So he hopped in a swamp of lilies where he lives in a hollow log...
But he's-
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A guy from old Cape Breton, so lonesome he got stoned
He crawled into a suitcase, and somebody mailed him home.
But he's-
Chorus:Repeat, end