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The Plough Boys (from Tollerton, Nottinghamshire) 1950 |
Plough Jagg's Play : Bassingham - 1952 |
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in comes i bold tom
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in comes i bold tom a brave and brisk young fellow
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good evening ladies gentlemen all
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good evening ladies and gents all
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we have just come to taste your wine and beer we have come to make you merry
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i ve come to taste of your beef and ale they say it s ripe and mellow
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stoke up your fires turn on your lights |
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and see our galland act tonight |
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some can dance some can sing
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some can dance and some can sing
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at your consent they shall come in
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with your consent they shall come in
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okum pokum france and spain
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oakum pokum france and spain
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in comes the recruiting sergeant on his name
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in comes the sergeant all the same
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in comes i the recruiting sergeant i have arrived here just now
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in come i the recruiting sergeant i have arrived here just now
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i have orders from the king enlist all young men that follow horses cart waggon or plough
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i ve had orders from the king to enlist all men that follow cart horse or plough
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tinkers tailors peddlers nailers all the more to my advance
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tinkers tailers peddlers nailers all the more to my advance
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the more i hear the fiddle play the better i can dance
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the more i hear the fiddle play the better i can dance
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what you dance |
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yes i can either dance sing or say if you can either dance sing or say
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i can either dance sing or say
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i will quickly walk away
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if you are going to dance i shall soon run away
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in comes i the farmer s man
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in comes i the farmer s man
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don t you see my whip in hand
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don t you see my whip in hand
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as i go forth to plough the land and turn it upside down
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and turn it upside down
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how straight i go from end to end
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straight i go from end to end
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and never make a baulk or bend
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neither make a baulk or bend
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and all my horses i attend
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and to my horses i attend
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as they go marching round the bend
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as i go marching round the end
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whoa back bob
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gee back whoa
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behold the lady bright and gay good fortune and sweet charms
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behold the lady bright and gay good fortune and sweet charms
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how scornfully i have been thrown away out of my true love s arms
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how scornfully i ve been thrown away right out of my true lover s arms
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he says as i won t to him wed he ll let me understand
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he swears if i don t wed with him as you will understand
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he will list all for a soldier and go into some foreign land
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he ll enlist for a soldier and go to some foreign land
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come all you lads that have a mind for listening
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come all ye lad s that s bound for listing
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list and do not be afraid
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enlist and do not be afraid
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you shall have all kinds of liquors
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you shall have all kinds of liquors
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likewise kiss this fair pretty maid
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likewise kiss the pretty fair maid
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are you willing to serve the king young man
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are you free hearted and willing
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thanks kind sergeant for your offer
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thank you kind sergeant i like you better if i stay longer i may fare worse
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time away does quickly pass
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thank you kind sergeant i like your offer time away will quickly pass
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the health and wealth does very well suit me |
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but i m in love with this buxom lass |
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this buxom lass she will not maintain you her beauty it will fade away
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a handsome man will not maintain you beauty it will fade away
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like the first rose of summer in the winter does become
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like a rose that blooms in summer and in winter will decay
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ten bright guineas shall be your bounty if along with me you will go
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ten bright guineas shall be your bounty if along with me you ll go
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your hat shall be neatly trimmed with ribbon
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your hat shall be well trimmed with ribbons
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you shall cut a gallant show
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and we will cut a gallant show
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are you free able and willing to serve your king
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are you free hearted and willing
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yes sergeant
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yes
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in you hand i place this shilling
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then in your hand i place this shilling
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on your hat i place this ribbon |
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you are a king s man |
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and since my love has listed and entered volunteers
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and since my love has enlisted and joined the volunteers
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i neither mean to sigh for him or yet to shed one tear
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i do not mean to sigh for him nor yet to shed a tear
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i neither mean to sigh for him but just to let you know |
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i will get another sweetheart and along with him i ll go
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i ve got another sweetheart and with him i will go
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do you love me my pretty fair maid
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well dost thou love me my pretty fair maid
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yes tommy to my sorrow
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yes tommy to my sorrow
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and when shall be our wedding day
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when shall be our wedding day
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tommy dear tomorrow
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tommy love to morrow
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and we ll shake hands and we ll make banns |
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and we ll get wed tomorrow
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and we will get wed to morrow
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in comes i dame jane with a neck as long as any crane
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in comes i old dame jane with a neck as long as any old crane
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bibble babble over the meadows
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dib dab over yon high meadows
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a long time i have sought thee and now i have got thee
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long have i sought thee now have i caught thee
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pray tommy take thy child
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here tommy take to the baby
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child jinny it s not my child look at it it s not a bit like me |
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look at its nose eyes and chin |
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it is as much like you as ever it can grin
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are as much like you as ever it can grin
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who says so
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who sent you here with it
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the overseer of the parish pump said i was to bring it to the biggest fool in the house
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the overseers of the parish said i was to take it to the biggest fool i could find
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and i think you are he
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and i think you be him
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thank you jinny |
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in come i old threshing blade as all you people know |
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my old dad learnt me this trade just sixty years ago |
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i thrashed old bony part and all his crew |
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and i will thrash you before i go |
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you won t |
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i will |
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o murphy murphy what hast thou done
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belzebub belzebub look what you ve done
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thou hast killed and slain thy n only son |
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thy n only son thy n onle heir |
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can st thou not see him bleeding there |
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five pounds for a doctor
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five pounds for a doctor
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ten pounds for him to stay away
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ten to stop away
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fifteen pounds for him to come
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fifteen to come in a case like this and he must come
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if there is one to be found anywhere |
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well there is |
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well step in doctor |
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whoa boys whoa boys take hold of my horse
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whoa boy hold my horse he s only a donkey
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mind it does not swallow you
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hold him by the tail and mind he don t kick you
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in comes i the doctor
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in comes i the doctor
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what you the doctor
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1. what you a doctor
2. you seem a very clever doctor
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yes me the doctor
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yes me a doctor
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how became you to be a doctor
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and how came you to be a doctor
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by my travels
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i travelled for it
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where did you travel
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and where did you travel
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italy ireland germany france and spain
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england ireland france and spain
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thirteen times round the world and back again |
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what as far as that |
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yes a great deal further than that |
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also two two miles yon side of york
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once i went a fifty two mile ride yon side of york
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where i cured an old woman called mrs cork
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to cure old mother cork
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she tumbled upstairs with a tea pot half full of cold boiling water
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she tumbled upstairs with an empty tea pot full of flour
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and grazed her shin just below the elbow
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grazed her skin bone
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and made her stocking top bleed
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and made her stocking top bleed
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also to my old grandmother s cupboard |
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where i always used to get a piece of cake and pork pie |
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that s what makes me such a fine big man |
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fine big man you are |
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yes as big as two men in this room |
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my own size particularly when i get my hat off |
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what great pains do you cure doctor
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what pains can you cure
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ipsy pipsy polsy gout
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ippsy pipsy palsy and the gout
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pains within and pains without
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pains within and pains without
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draw a leg set a tooth
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set a tooth draw a leg
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physic cats poison rats |
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almost bring a dead man to life again |
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but i haven t done that yet |
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you seem a clever old chap doctor
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1. what you a doctor
2. you seem a very clever doctor
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i wish you would try your skill on this young man
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you had better try your skill
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by your leave sir i will
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thank you sir and so i will
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here pretty lady take hold of this hat stick and walking gloves |
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while i feel this man s pulse |
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pulse man the pulse doesn t lie there |
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where tommy where would you feel |
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you feel the bridge of the neck and the back of the nose of course |
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that s the hardest and softest part about him |
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this man is not dead he is in a trance
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this old woman s not dead she s only in a trance
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he has been trying a new experiment
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she s been trying this new experiment
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what is that doctor
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what s that doctor
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he has been living on green raw boiled potatoes
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she s been living on green boiled tatey tops
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nine days all but a fortnight
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for three weeks without water
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also swallowed his old grandmother s donkey and cart and couldn t digest the wheels
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she has also swallowed a donkey and cart and the wheels won t go round
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oh i have a box of pills here |
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by the way doctor what pills do you carry |
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these pills are anti billious pills
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these pills are persian pills
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take one at night and one in the morning
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and two at night
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and swallow the box at dinner time |
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if the pills do not digest the box will
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if the pills don t digest the box will
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oh i have another box here |
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what does that box contain doctor
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what s that doctor
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stilts for shrimps |
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crutches for lame grasshoppers |
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spectacles for blind bumble bees |
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and many other things i cannot mention just now |
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inside my inside trousers waistcoat pocket that i have left at home
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inside my trousers breeches waistcoat pocket lining pocket
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i have a bottle of whiff whaff
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i ll give her a little of my whiff waff
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to teem down his old tiff taff
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and let it run down her tiff taff
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if you can dance we can sing
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if she can dance we can sing
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arise old chap and let s begin
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so raise her up and let s begin
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good masters and good mistress as you sit around your fire
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good master and good mistress as you sit round your fire
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remember us poor ploughboys who plough through mud and mire
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remember us poor plough boys who plough through mud and mire
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the mire it is so very deep the water runs so clear
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the mire it is so very deep the water is so clear
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put your hands into your pockets that is all that we desire |
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put bread into our hoppers and beer into our cans |
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let s hope you will never forget the jolly old farmer s man |
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good masters and good mistress you see our fool has gone
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you see our fool has gone
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we make it our business to follow him along
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we re making it our business to follow him along
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we thank you for civility and what you gave us here
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we thank you for civility and what you gave us here
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we wish you all goodnight and another happy year
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we wish you all a very good night and another happy new year
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