My true {{noun}} wuz beautiful,
An' my true {{noun}} wuz gay,
But she's taken a trip on a {{adjective}} ship
{{verb -ed}} out to Botany Bay,
An' though she's far away,
I'll never {{verb}} me own true {{noun}},
Ten thousand miles away!

Oh, it wuz a summer's mornin',
When last I {{verb -ed}} my Meg
She'd a Government {{noun}} around each hand
An' another one round her leg
As the big {{noun}} left the bay,
"Adieu," she sez, "{{verb}} me,
Ten thousand miles away!"
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(Adapted from Ten Thousand Miles Away)