| snowycrested curl amoist the leader's
wild and moulting hair, |
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| 'Ductor' Hitchcock hoisted his fezzy fuzz at bludgeon's height |
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| signum to his companions of the chalice for the Loud Fellow, |
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| boys' and silentium in curia! (our maypole once more where he
rose |
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| of old) and the canto was chantied there chorussed and christened |
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| where by the old tollgate, Saint Annona's Street and Church. |
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| And around the lawn the rann it rann and this is
the rann that |
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| Hosty made. Spoken. Boyles and Cahills, Skerretts and Pritchards, |
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| viersified and piersified may the treeth we tale of live in stoney. |
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| Here line the refrains of. Some vote him Vike, some mote him |
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| Mike, some dub him Llyn and Phin while others hail him Lug |
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| Bug Dan Lop, Lex, Lax, Gunne or Guinn. Some apt him Arth, |
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| some bapt him Barth, Coll, Noll, Soll, Will, Weel, Wall but I |
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| parse him Persse O'Reilly else he's called no name at all. To- |
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| gether. Arrah, leave it to Hosty, frosty Hosty, leave it to Hosty |
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| for he's the mann to rhyme the rann, the rann, the rann, the king |
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| of all ranns. Have you here? (Some ha) Have we where? (Some |
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| hant) Have you hered? (Others do) Have we whered? (Others dont) |
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| It's cumming, it's brumming! The clip, the clop! (All cla) Glass |
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| crash. The (klikkaklakkaklaskaklopatzklatschabattacreppycrotty- |
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| graddaghsemmihsammihnouithappluddyappladdypkonpkot!). |
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Ardite, arditi! |
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| Music cue. |
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