Key: C major•
Verse 1
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'Twas a balmy summer evening
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F
A vagabond crept slowly in and posed
upon the floor.
"Where did it come from?" Someone
"Here, Toby, seek him,
why, he's as filthy as a Turk."
This badinage the poor wretch took
with stoical good grace
In fact, he smiled as though he thought
he'd struck the proper place
"Come, boys, I know there's kindly
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would make a deacon proud."
"Give me a drink - that's what I want - I'm out of funds,
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you know
When I had cash to treat the gang,
this pocket never held a sou
nicely - God bless you one and all
Next time I pass this good saloon,
I'll make another call
Give you a song? No,
I can't do that - my singing days are past
I'll tell you what I'll do
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I'll tell you a funny story and a fact I promise,
too
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a one of you would think
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But, I was some four of five years back - say,
"Fill her up, Joe,
are miserably tame
Five fingers - there,
that's the scheme - and corkin' whisky, too
Well, here's luck, boys; and landlord,
my best regards to you.
and I'd like to tell you how
As I told you once, I was a man with a muscle,
And, but for a blunder,
ought to have made considerable wealth.
'Coz gradually I saw the star of fame
before my eyes.
"I made a picture perhaps you've seen,
'tis called the 'CHASE OF FAME'
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It brought me fifteen hundred pounds
comes the funny part
into my heart.
that the vagabond you see
Could ever love a woman and expect
her smiles were freely given
your soul you'd give
With a form like the Milo Venus,
too beautiful to live
With eyes like the purest of diamonds
and a wealth of chestnut hair?
If so, 'twas she,
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for there never was another half so fair.
"I was working on a portrait one
Of a fair- haired boy, a friend of mine,
And Madeline admired
it and much to my surprise
The jewel that I had treasured so,
had tarnished and was dead.
"That's why I took to drink,
I thought you'd be amused
There's a teardrop in your eye
babes and women that would cry.
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"Say, boys, if you'd give me just another whiskey,
I'll really be glad
And you shall see the lovely Madeline
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upon the barroom floor."
the vagabond began
buy the soul of any man
upon the shapely head
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he leaped and fell across the picture - dead.
Outro 1
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Am
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Bb
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