So Dear to My Heart

Music: Eliot Daniel, Paul J. Smith
Lyrics: Artist Unknown

So Dear to my Heart | It's Whatcha Do with Whatcha Got | Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) | Stick-to-it-ivity | The Country Fair

So Dear to my Heart

So dear to my heart
That Septembery day
When that old shady lane we strolled
Was just turning scarlet and gold
So dear to my heart

So dear to my heart
That Decembery day
When the first touch of frost and snow
Had painted each tree in the road
So dear to my heart

I still can picture the flowers in a shower
And that picnic in July
And I still treasure each and every hour
Of those years that had to fly

They're locked in my heart
In a corner apart
While I tenderly hold the key
As long as I live they will be
So dear to my heart

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It's Whatcha Do with Whatcha Got

It's whatcha do with whatcha got
And never mind how much you got
It's whatcha do with whatcha got
Thay pays off in the end

You gotta start with whatcha got
If what ya got ain't such a lot
To make the most of whatcha got
Here's what I recommend

Ya start by a-tryin'
And applyin' your best
If you try there ain't no denying
There's a way to feather your nest

You gotta add how whatcha do
And multiply by whatcha do
You think you can't win but you do
And you get back dividends

It's whatcha do with whatcha got
And never mind how much ya got
It's whatcha do with whatcha got
Thay pays off in the end

It's the means you "applyeth"
That raises your stock
Look what David did to Goliath
With a little old hunk of rock

It's whatcha do with whatcha got
And never mind how much ya got
It's whatcha do with whatcha got
Thay pays off in the end

Now looke here, son, stop a-sittin'
Gettin' somewhere takes some gettin'
You can't sit and 'spect to get it

Now the road to fame takes muscle
Lots of work and lots of hustle
So start right in and hit it

Now if at first you don't succeed
A lot of spunk is what you need
Where someone else will take the lead
So try, try, try again

Just get up when you fall down
And don't be forlorn
Look how Joshua busted that wall down
With a little old measly horn

It's whatcha do with whatcha got
And never mind just how much ya got
It's whatcha do with whatcha got
Thay pays off in the end

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Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)

Lavenders blue, dilly dilly
Lavenders green
If I were king, dilly dilly
I'd need a queen

Who told me so dilly dilly
Who told me so?
I told myself dilly dilly
I told me so

If your dilly dilly heart
Feels a dilly dilly way
And if you answer yes
In a pretty little church
On a dilly dilly day
You'll be wed in a dilly dilly

Dress of lavender blue dilly dilly
Lavender green
Then I'll be king dilly dilly
And you'll be my queen

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Stick-to-it-ivity

Now where there's a will
There's a way to do it
But you'll never get there
If you don't stick to it

Now let me tell you about a fella
Who had the right stuff
And wouldn't give up
Even when the goin' got rough

Christopher Columbus
Livin' in Spain
Showed capacity
For usin' his brain

Studied his geography
Had it down pat
Said I'm gonna prove
That the world ain't flat

Because she thought he was right
Queen Isabella one night
Gave him three small boats
One, two, three

Now uh, the boats were kinda leaky
Started to sail
Came a hurricane
A furious gale

Waves were a-lashin'
Future looked black
Sailors started yellin'
"Chris, turn back"

On that eventful day
what did Columbus say

Why I said
Stick-to-it-ivity
If you got that stuff
Called stick-to-it-ivity
You're gonna do all right

Old man adversity
Gonna have his bluff called
Stick-to-it-ivity
Never lost a fight

Yes siree
Yes siree
You can clear the deck
For opportunity

By applyin'
Stick-to-it-ivity
If ya got that stuff called
Stick-to-it-ivity
You're gonna do all right
We're gonna do all right

Now, don't think Columbus
Was the only one
Who did what folks said
Couldn't be done

So when folks say
"'Taint no use "
Remember Robert Bruce

Robert was the bravest king
Scotland has ever known
Came the enemy
To threaten his throne

Twice he went to battle
Twice he met defeat
Headed for the Highlands
In retreat

He thought he'd give up the fight
But it so happened one night
He saw a spider at work
Back and forth and back
Up and down and up

Spider kept a-swingin'
Swingin' on his thread
Tried to hook it
To a limb overhead

Spider kept a-missin'
Every time he tried
"You're never going to make it"
Robert cried

On that eventful day
What did the spider say

Says I, Robert, me lad
Stick-to-it-ivity
If ya got that stuff called
Stick-to-it-ivity
You're going to do all right

Old man adversity
Going to have his bluff called
Stick-to-it-ivity
Never lost a fight

Yes siree
Yes siree
You can clear the deck
For opportunity

By applyin'
Stick-to-it-ivity
If you've got that stuff called
Stick-to-it-ivity
You're going to do all right
We're gonna do all right

Yes siree
Yes siree
You can clear the deck
For opportunity

By applyin'
Stick-to-it-ivity
If you've got that stuff called
Stick-to-it-ivity
You're going to do all right
You're going to do all right

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The Country Fair

Ho-dee-I, ho-dee-ay
What a great big wonderful day
Not a care in the air
Everybody you know
From Matilda to Joe
Will be there at the county fair

Ho-dee-ay, ho-dee-I
What a great big beautiful sky
All the clowns like the crowds
You can bet will be dressed
In their brightest and best
For their stay at the county fair

The teenage misters
Will be shooin' little sisters
To the Ferris wheel up above
And they'll be gettin'
Their best gals for pettin'
In the Tunnel of Love

Ho-dee-I, ho-dee-ay
Come and throw your troubles away
Just a grin gets you in
On this day of the year
When there's nothing but cheer
To share at the county fair

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