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Thread #69349 Message #1175110
Posted By: Betsy
30-Apr-04 - 12:46 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: A Smuggler's Song (Rudyard Kipling)
Subject: four and twenty horses - HELP
Can't remember the words - the last line of the chorus goes something like " as the gentlemen ride by".
4 & 20 horses riding though dark ( Something ) ......................... ( Something )letters???...... for a lady ( Something )baccy ???...... for a clerk Watch them all my darling as the gentlemen ride by . Maddening thing is I know the tune OK - can anyone help me.???