Pass the Hat Lyrics

Pass the hat, friend, if you'd be so kind, friend
Take a while for a smile and a song
Leave your worries, leave your hurry
In a while you're gonna find
You can't help but sing along

Take a look 'round at this hard town
All you see people walking alone
Weary places, saddened faces
Got to bring these voices together in a song

Pass the hat
You've got to live before you die
Pass the hat
Got to laugh more than you cry
Pass the hat
I'll give you all I've got to give
Pass the hat, pass the hat
Oh, yeah

Pass the hat, friend, we're all the same, friend
You and me and the man next to you
'Been through bad times, 'been through sad times
Just the same, here's a song
Just to help to get us through

Take a look down the streets of this town
Like a veil there's a gloom hangin' down
But even still, friends if you've got the will, friends
We can raise our voices together all around

Pass the hat, friend, if you'd be so kind, friend
Soon enough there's a grave for us all
But we're alive, friends, you and I, friends
We can raise our voices there's still time before the fall