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Thread #68148 Message #1145318
Posted By: The Walrus
24-Mar-04 - 07:54 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Death of Poor Bill Brown
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Death of Poor Bill Brown
The version of this song that I know is almost exactly that in the broadsides in Malcolm Douglas' link, with a slight difference in the first verse:
You gentlemen, both great and small, Gamekeepers, poachers, sportsmen all, Come listen to a simple clown, I'll sing you the death of poor Bill Brown, Come listen to a simple clown, And I'll sing the death of Bill Brown.
the last line serving as chorus until the last verse when it becomes: "And I've sung the death of Bill Brown".