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'HERE was a man, and he had nought,

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And robbers came to rob him

He crept up to the chimney-pot,

And then they thought they had him.

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But he got down on t' other side,
And then they could not find him.
He ran fourteen miles in fifteen days,
And never looked behind him.

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Were fighting for the crown;

The lion beat the unicorn

All round about the town.

Some gave them white bread,

And some gave them brown;
Some gave them plum-cake,

And sent them out of town.

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HERE was a fat man of Bombay,

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Who was smoking one sunshiny day

When a bird, called a snipe,

Flew away with his pipe,

Which vexed the fat man of Bombay

OM, Tom, the piper's son,

TOM

run!

The pig was eat, and Tom was beat,

And Tom went roaring down the street.

RYAN O'LIN, and his wife, and wife's mother,

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They all went over a bridge together;

The bridge was broken, and they all fell in,

The deuce go with all! quoth Bryan O’Lin.

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And he shot it right through the head head, head.

He carried it home

To his old wife Joan,

And bid her a fire for to make, make, make

To roast the little duck

He had shot in the brook,

And he'd

go and fetch her the drake, drake, drake.

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Went to sea in a bowl:

And if the bowl had been stronger,
My song would have been longer.

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OCTOR FOSTER went to Glo'ster.
In a shower of rain;

He stepped in a puddle, up to his middle,

And never went there again.

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