Key: C major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
To the mouth of the Hob
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thrush's cave
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Undecanted the hot wine from
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And placed loaves on the greasy stones
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Verse 2
Our baby's lips are blue
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Take it off! Take it off! Take it off
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And we'd be your eternal
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debtors
Verse 3
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As the doorway drew near
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our eldest appeared
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With a bundle in her arms
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nuzz ling her breast
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And the colour was returned
Interlude 1
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I used to hold him in
Verse 4
the palm of one hand
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Now he's grown as tall as I am
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veiled in downy gold
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On the broad shoulders of a man
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He is
Verse 5
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strong with the second sight
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Of a drought when
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the stream was bulging
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Verse 6
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When the pictures be come too real
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He buries his nose in the bush of my beard
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And gently pinches my earlobe between
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Until the present is restored
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At the murmur of dawn there's a
Verse 7
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And a small man standing by
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flies for a crown
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One good eye a sparkling well in his brow
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I'd already acquainted
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myself of that voice
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Before he'd even spoke:
Verse 8
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is rightfully owed
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Rouse the boy from slept
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Get him bathed and dressed
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It is time he kept your end of the bargain"
Verse 9
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