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  AIR -- Roast beef of old England
  
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  Come listen good folks and a tale I'll relate
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  How a staymaker, faith, would have made himself great
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  And from mending of Stays took to mending of State
  
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  Oh the reformer of England,
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  And oh, the reformer Tom Paine.
  
  The staymaker once an Exciseman was made
  Where he learnt all the tricks the smugglers e'er play'd
  And some tricks of his own, till kick'd out of the trade
  
  Next America saw him o'erflowing with spite
  'Gainst the sons of Old England he'd read and he'd write
  And brandish his goose-quill, but ne'er choose to fight
  
  When peace was one settl'd he'd stay there no more,
  For Peace and Tom Paine could ne'er live on one shore
  But transported to France madea  hellish uproar
  
  Now, protected by Laws, he strives to o'erthrow
  At Britain he aims his unnatural blow
  And would lay all the true sons of Liberty low
   
  Let the Jacobins take him--they soon will requite him
  Since riot, and rapine, and murder delight him
  But let us live in peace, if 'twere only to spite him
  
  Unite then, ye britons, unite in applause
  To them men that stand forth for our Rights and our Laws
  And from runagate Traitors defend our good cause
  
  Then up with the Cuase of Old England
  And down with Sedition and Paine
  
  Our true British Freedom for ages shall stand,
  In spite of Sedition and Pain's hellish band
  And 'God save the King' shall refound through the land
  
  So God save the King of Old England
  And down with Sedition and Pain
  
   
  [c1791. Subject is Thomas Paine, 1737-1809, American radical.]