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[Verse 1] 
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Sit beside the breakfast table,   think about your troubles
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Pour yourself a cup of tea then think about the bubbles
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You can take your teardrops and drop 'em in a teacup
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Take them down   to the riverside
 

[Verse 2]
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And throw 'em over the side to be swept up by a current
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Then taken to the ocean to be eaten by some fishes
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Who were eaten by some fishes  and swallowed by a whale
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Who grew so old     he decomposed,,,,,, doo-do,    doo-do     doo-do


[Verse 3]
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He died and left his body to the bottom of the ocean
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Now everybody knows that when a bo-dy decompos-es
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The basic elements are given back  to the o-cean
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And the sea does what it oughta

[Verse 4]
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And soon there's salty water (not too good for drinking)
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'Cause it tastes just like a teardrop (so we run it through a filter)
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And it comes out from a faucet (where it pours into a teapot)
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Which is just about to bubble


[Bridge] 
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now       think about your troubles, ----- 


[Outro]
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(Repeat ad lib. and fade)
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ahhh  --  -- --   ahhhhh  --  --    ahh-- ahh ------- ahhhh  ahh