Oops ! Don't know what happened there
I saw the reference to Les Darcy Earlier and thought you might like these lyrics.
Don't know if the chords will transfer accurately
Regards John
Les D'Arcy.
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Roll up ! roll up ! and see the show, you local blokes let's see you go
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A quid for a goer, two bob for a dud, it's a princely pay for sweat and blood.
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Young Les was keen to have a go, "now watch him Les ! he'll hit you low"
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The tent-show boy never saw it coming, Maitland's pride was off and running
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He was running down to Sydney town, he was running down to try,
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Running down to make a name and listen to them cry.
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¥ All I can wish for tonight is to see les D'Arcy fight.
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¥ How they cheered him, they clapped him & they cheered him
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¥ Every Saturday night
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So he hung around the stadium door, they let him in to sweep the floor,
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He saw them spar, the best they'd got, he knew that he could beat the lot
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Three rounds to start and then a main, he never swept that floor again,
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For he beat them all inside the bell, soon he heard the people yell.
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They rolled up in regiments for every fight, they made Les Darcy King for a night
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But then he refused to kill in our name, the press they called him a national shame.
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He stowed away for the land of the free, he died alone across the sea
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In a flag-drap'd coffin they sent 'im 'ome, he sat on our guilt like a champion's throne
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He was going down to Tennessee, he was going down to die,
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If we'd known that we would break your heart, you would have heard Australia cry.
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Final Chorus.
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All I can wish for tonight, is to see Les D'Arcy fight,
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How they cheered him, they clapped him and they cheered him
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Every Saturday night
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Every Saturday night, every Saturday night.
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