Key: B minor
Verse 1
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5, 4, 3, 2,
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they spied a beeping
Came towards a hobbling,
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flying, running, leaping
clapping, crowing
Clucking and gobbling,
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mopping and mowing
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Dib your grimaces, cat -like and gnawing
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Look at our apples russet and done
bite at our peaches,
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Pears red with basking out in the sun
pluck them and suck them,
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Pomegranates feast
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Good folk, said Lizzie,
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mindful of Jeannie,
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Give me much and many,
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she tossed them her penny.
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Nay, take a seat with us, honour,
and eat with us,
they aren't so grinning.
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nay, take a seat with us, honour,
and eat with us,
they aren't so grinning.
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Our feast is but beginning.
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Such fruits as these,
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no man can carry.
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Half their bloom would fly,
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half their dew would dry,
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half their flavour would pass by.
and eat with us, they answer grinning,
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Nay, take a seat with us, honour,
and eat with us, they answer, grinning,
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our feast is but beginning
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Thank you,
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said Lizzie,
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but one waits at home for me
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If you won't sell me any,
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give me back my penny,
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I'd toss you for a fee
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They began to scratch their fates,
but visibly demurring,
cross -grained, uncivil,
their tongues waxed loud,
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their looks were evil, lashing their tails
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They trod and fustled her,
elbowed and jostled her,
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clawed with their nail
tore her gown and soiled her snuffing,
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Stamped upon her tender feet,
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Against her mouth to make her eat
and caught her,
chased and fought her,
Bullied and besought her,
scratched her,
mauled her and mocked her,
would not open lip from lip,
Sludged in the dimples of her chin
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Lest they should cram a mouthful in
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At last the evil people,
worn out by her resistance
Flung back a penny
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Some with ring and ripple,
dived into the brook
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whatever route they took
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Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh,
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Oh Liz
Knew not was it night or day
She heard her petty jingle
She was filled with inward laughter
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An urge to honk quite out of breath with haste
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You
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