"If all the world were paper <br />And all the sea were ink, <br />If all the trees were bread and cheese <br />What would we do for drink? <br /> <br />If all the world were sand O, <br />Oh then what should we lack O, <br />if as they say there were no clay <br />How should we take Tobacco? <br /> <br />If all our vessels ran-a, <br />If none but had a crack-a, <br />If Spanish apes ate all the grapes <br />How should we do for sack-a? <br /> <br />If all the world were men <br />And men lived all in trenches, <br />And there were none but we alone, <br />How should we do for wenches? <br /> <br />If friars had no bald pates <br />Nor nuns had no dark cloisters, <br />If all the seas were beans and peas <br />How should we do for oysters? <br /> <br />If there had been no projects <br />Nor none that did great wrongs, <br />If fiddlers shall turn players all <br />How should we do for songs? <br /> <br />If all things were eternal <br />And nothing their end bringing, <br />If this should be, then how should we <br />Here make an end of singing?<br /><br />Anonymous<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-all-the-world-were-paper/
