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This life is hard

But you can make it easy

You can look pale

You can look queasy

But soon you’ll be buzzing

Life can be easy

As long as it’s loving

We all meet trouble

We all get down

We struggle in a bubble

We all wear a frown

But soon you’ll be buzzing

Life can be easy

As long as it’s loving

We all get tested

We all feel bad

But then you get rested

And then you feel glad

Soon you’ll be buzzing

Like a favourite cousin

As long as it’s loving

This song is for Ciara

For Ciara McGinty

She knows how to do it

And she’s not even twenty

You’d go a million miles

For one of her smiles

All you need is loving

And she’s got plenty.

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Peter is a semi-retired journalist who edited the South East London Mercury in Deptford. He was involved in the Mercury’s seven-year campaign with fans to get Charlton Athletic FC back to The Valley in 1992. With musician Carl Picton he wrote ‘One Georgie Orwell’, a proletarian musical tribute to George Orwell. He also played football for VPS in the Finnish Premier Division in 1975/76.