Tonart: G major
Verse 1
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When I first came to this toon to stop,
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C
And started out in business
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in my side street shop,
To the Kirk every Sunday
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I went twice as a rule,
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And counted the collection
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C
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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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Oh, well, the night came at last,
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but saints preserve us.
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I couldn't say a word,
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for I felt that nervous.
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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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For the story that I started was not,
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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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And my business grew so rapidly,
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that soon I was elected
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to the council of the town.
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And they made me the convener
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of the sewage committee
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for the story that I started
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G
at the Kirksville.
Then I became a Bailey,
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but promotion was my ruin.
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C
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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and give him seven days
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D
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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The story that I started
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at the kirk's worry.
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Well, I've now retired from public life,
a disappointed man,
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With my mouth all twisted,
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telling stories in behind my hand.
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And many years have passed
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since fortune gave me such a knock,
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till just the other evening
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I received a dreadful shock
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when the minister's youngest daughter,
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at her father's jubilee,
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told the story that I started
Yeah
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