Key: G major
Verse 1
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When I first came to this toon to stop,
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And started out in business
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in my side street shop,
To the Kirk every Sunday
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And counted the collection
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For my greatest am bition it was, you see,
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To tell a little story
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at the Kirk's soiree.
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but saints preserve us.
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I couldn't say a word,
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I thought upon a limerick,
then I thought upon a riddle,
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then I started on a story,
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then I stopped it in the middle.
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see, the kind that you can tell at a kirk's worry.
Well, after that evening,
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for the finish of my story at the side
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street shop.
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for the story that I started
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at the Kirksville.
Then I became a Bailey,
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but promotion was my ruin.
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For the first time that I sat up on the bench
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was my undoing.
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For objectionable conduct
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I had to try a friend of mine
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without the option of a fight.
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Just because he told a policeman
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a staunch wee free,
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at the kirk's worry.
a disappointed man,
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telling stories in behind my hand.
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since fortune gave me such a knock,
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when the minister's youngest daughter,
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told the story that I started
Yeah
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