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Thread #26098   Message #3281572
Posted By: GUEST,Richard R. D.
29-Dec-11 - 01:44 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: There's a Song They Sing at a Sing-Song..
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's a Song They Sing at a Sing-Song..
Thanks a Lot Guest Ergometto, I too have been trying to find the wordsof this song which I heard for the 1st time 60 yrs ago which I used to sing at parties. From your verses only the 1st verse & Marmaduke I know. Here are two additional verses I remember.

Now Convict number 40 was Master Sweeny Todd
But very soon poor Sweeny will be laid beneath the clod
He used to be a barber and was good at shaving hair
But one day someone lost his head while sitting in the chair.

Now Senor Macoroni was a handsome dashing Sheik
But when it came to ladies he was very very weak
And now he's in the jail house where he's never been before
They counted up his wives and found that he had twentyfour.

p.s. In your first verse "Now once a week.." In the 3rd line instead of the word 'troubles' I learnt it as 'sorrows'