sing joy spring

we sing a spring

a rare and most mysterious spring

is buried deep in the soul

the joy spring

the fountain of pleasure

is deep inside you whether you're diggin' it or not

once you're aware of this spring

you'll know that it's the greatest treasure you've got

and furthermore the joy spring

the bounteous treasure

cannot be bartered away and never can be sold

nothing can take it from you

it's yours and yours alone to have and to hold

and something more

it never is lost to fire or theft

it's always around

when trouble is gone the pleasure is left

i've always found

it's burglar-proof same as the treasure

man lays up in heaven worth a price no one can measure

that says a lot

so joy spring this fountain of pleasure

that's deep inside you let me inform you in all truth

ponce de leon sought this

when he was searchin' for the fountain of youth

ol' ponce de leon laughed so much he

never did find the magic fountain

but many people with a well-adjusted

spirit they could hear it when y'told

'em it was there tellin' them was

like tellin' it on the mountain

it's quite a lift havin' the gift of laughter i'm a man who knows in a

minute i can tell y'just exactly how the story goes

it involves a firm conviction in another previous life givin' your mind a chance to fly

fly aroun' the universe investigatin' other

galaxies 'n' certain other subtle

types o'life tryin' t'dig it gettin'

pretty well-acquainted with a lot of

other strife an' pretty much acquirin'

yourself plenty of education

pretty soon here comes earth birth

'n then y'ready t'put it all t'work

but soon as you're finished bein' born

you start forgettin' what you knew

'cause you're another kinda you

a reincarnation manifestation

of spirit in sensation

y'really got that right

the average person isn't bright

not so bright that they recall the fatal fall

down here t' this earth

their minds disguise their death to spirit

life and call it birth

that's their reason for forgetting and they find it very upsetting when reminded

tell 'em they've lived before

they'll show y' the nearest open door

gotta have feelin' while dealin' with

walkers in their sleep

they can't imagine somethin' as deep

here they come

here they come

there they are

unimaginative and ignorant of falling from a star

here they come

there they are

there they go

life is over in a minute an' they never dug

it in it or enjoy a minute of it

'cause they put too much above it that was gross

somethin' that was worth a couple bucks at mos'

so there is the reason that the maker of man

included there in his plan

a certain fountain deep within'

where there was laughter

youth 'n' gold

for human beings t'have 'n' hold

'n share the memory of where we've all been

brothers called grimm knew chances were slim'

anybody would dig that the human soul was snow white

and the seven dwarfs were seven tempers in man

whose digging out the gold completes the plan

an bacon was hip that shakespeare couldn't read

and so he gave him all the rhymes

that have lasted through the years

and kept eternal truths alive through

several centuries

that's how we know them now they lasted 'cause they're true

what was it from macbeth?"