Don’t Envy the Boy
Author: Unknown
Composer: Joleen G. Meredith
Languages (14)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Danish: Misund ikke
- English: Don’t Envy the Boy
- Finnish: Voit elämän onnellisen luoda
- French: N’envie pas le gars
- German: Tu’s doch
- Japanese: [Unknown title]
- Korean: [Unknown title]
- Mandarin (Traditional): [Unknown title]
- Norwegian: Misunn ei en gutt
- Portuguese: Não Inveje
- Samoan: Aua le Ita
- Spanish: No envidies al joven
- Swedish: Avundas ej din kamrat
- Tongan: ʻOua ʻe Manuki ki he Tamasiʻi
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Most common tunes for “Don’t Envy the Boy”
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Appearances of “Don’t Envy the Boy” over time
This timeline shows which tunes have been used with this text over time, in hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1970 or earlier.
In copyright (IRI?)
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: Primary Summer Program 1972: Primary Is (1972), p. 21.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
Don’t envy the boy with the cheerful smile; just get one. Don’t envy the boy with sportsmanship; just get some. We have guidelines to follow As we blaze the trail of life. Don’t envy the boy with special skills; just get some. Don’t envy the boy with standards high; just be one. Working ev’ry day with our light to guide the way, We won’t envy the boy with the cheerful smile, Won’t envy the boy with the standards high, Won’t envy the boy with the happy life; we’ll live one.