“I've been over and I've been under,
I've been through all kinds of hell.
Trouble was not only my middle name,
It was my first as well.
Through the years, all I've encountered,
I've just one thing to say:
"Hold on to what you got
and don't let it slip away."”

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

I've been taken for far more rides<br>to places I've never been,<br>stabbed so many times in the back<br>I no longer feel a thing.<br>Oh, ask me what all this has taught me<br>and I'll tell you what I'll say:<br>"Hold on to what you got<br>and don't let it slip away.<br>Save it for a rainy day." <br class="br">"Hold On To What You Got" (song) <br class="br">Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Hold On To What You Got" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7YYinfmOUI (song on YouTube) <br class="br"> (+ Live performance in Japan, 1992. On YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nrmDG7frD4 <br class="br">Song lyrics

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Irish singer-songwriter 1946

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