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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".

Walrus