Standard (EADGBE)

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Contributed by E.J. Rutman

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What is the moral? Who rides may read

 When the night is thick and the tracks are blind

 A friend in a pinch is a friend indeed

 But a fool to wait for the laggard behind

 Down to Gehenna or up to the throne

 He travels the fastest who travels alone

White hands cling to a tightened rein

Slipping a spur from a booted heel

Tenderest voices cry "turn again"

Red lips tarnish the scabbarded steel

 High hopes faint on a warm hearth stone

 He travels the fastest who travels alone

One may fall but he falls by himself

Falls by himself with himself to blame

One may attain and to him is pelf

Loot of the city in gold or fame

 Plunder of earth shall be all his own

 Who travels the fastest and travels alone

Jam

One may fall but he falls by himself

Falls by himself with himself to blame

One may attain and to him is pelf

Loot of the city in gold or fame

 Plunder of earth shall be all his own

 Who travels the fastest and travels alone

Wherefore the more ye be holpen and stayed

Stayed by a friend in the hour of toil

Sing this heretical song I have made

His be the labor and yours be the spoil

 Win by his aid and his aid disown

 He travels the fastest who travels alone...