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|f_annotation='''WHY SHOULD WE QUARREL FOR RICHES'''. English, Irish; Air (9/8 time). G Major/E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB.  O’Farrell (c. 1810) assigns an Irish provenance for this sailor’s song (Roud Broadside Index B139505), although a version appears earlier in Allan Ramsay’s (1684-1758) '''Tea-Table Miscellany''' (London, 1733). It proved popular and had longevity far into the next century, inspiring parodies and sequals; it was frequently anthologized. The first verse and chorus go:
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''How pleasant a sailor's life passes,''<br>
''Who roams o'er the watery main!''<br>
''No treasure he ever amasses,''<br>
''But cheerfully spends all his gain.''<br>
''We're strangers to party and faction,''<br>
''To honour and honesty true;''<br>
''And would not commit a bad action''<br>
''For power or profit in view.''<br>
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Chorus:<br>
''Then why should we quarrel for riches,''<br>
''Or any such glittering toys;''<br>
''A light heart, and a thin pair of breeches,''<br>
''Will go through the world, my brave boys!''<br>
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The tune was also entered into vol. 2 (p. 149) of the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper [[biography:James Goodman]]. 
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|f_printed_sources=Joyce ('''Old Irish Folk Muisc and Songs'''), 1909; No. 437, pp. 247 248. O’Farrell ('''Pocket Companion, vol. IV'''), c. 1810; p. 125.
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