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You Can Build a Life If You Care

If ten unemployed people formed a group
if ten people saved only ten dollars a week
after the first week they would have
One hundred dollars to invest

One hundred dollars would buy
equipment to wash and dry cars
a start on the road to make work
a start to build better life perks

If ten unemployed people formed a group
after only six weeks they would have 
six hundred dollars my friend
enough to buy tools for the road

A lawn mower sharpens the day
perhaps in landscaping they play
If after two years that ten thousand shares
perhaps it's a second hand shop

Investing in you
perhaps it is true
you can build a life 
if you care.

Perhaps with stock from Ebay
and from a shed you sell
you can create a future 
that better in the end

This idea is quite simple my friends
but builds to make useful new ends
if each working person
was simply to save 

It could make a future 
for me and for you
Imagine if each working person
saved ten dollars a week as a group

we could build jobs for our future 
we could build jobs for our kids
we could build jobs to stop staving
the children are hungry for food

Copyright © | Year Posted 2014




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