Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:

Chorus: Joy is in the ears that hear, let its song succeed
Laughter is the bane of fear and all the hope we need

Let all who are most serious and fearful on this day
Take lessons from our Giant friends, or children at their play
For ever in the midst of woe, it helps if we recall
That laughter is a medicine more potent than them all

(Chorus)

When all our banners dragged the dust and all our hands were chained,
In haunted caverns of the earth our laughter yet remained
And ever as we lost our dreams, the joy would bid them nigh
Until at last we left the dark and laughed beneath the sky

(Chorus)

Though ever in this darkling world our enemies grow strong,
It helps us to remember that their reign cannot be long
For though it seems forever as we hold them still at bay,
It helps to know that laughter is forever and a day

(Chorus x2)