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With a lady once I was horribly in love,
And oh it was heavenly, it pointed up above;
They said her hair was not her own; a falsehood, I declare;
For I knew the very barber where she bought that hair.
One day I proposed and she accepted me,
But I didn't seem in favour with the family;
Still I resolved to win the girl, she'd saved up seven pound,
And when the wedding day it came, they all came round.
They...
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The boots and shoes at me they shied,
But the worst of it was there were feet inside,
As for the roast, well it wasn't very nice,
For they boiled it first you see;
A dollop of it went wallop down the back of my neck
They.....