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18 lines
509 B
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My true {{noun}} wuz beautiful,
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An' my true {{noun}} wuz gay,
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But she's taken a trip on a {{adjective}} ship
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{{verb -ed}} out to Botany Bay,
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An' though she's far away,
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I'll never {{verb}} me own true {{noun}},
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Ten thousand miles away!
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Oh, it wuz a summer's mornin',
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When last I {{verb -ed}} my Meg
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She'd a Government {{noun}} around each hand
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An' another one round her leg
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As the big {{noun}} left the bay,
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"Adieu," she sez, "{{verb}} me,
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Ten thousand miles away!"
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(Adapted from Ten Thousand Miles Away)
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