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In the lands away beyond the sea where Khan and Sultan rule	A
Where they drink their coffee thick and black and sip the sherbet cool	A
They have white Circassian girls for slaves as well as the Negro black	B
And it seems to me in our free land that slavery's coming back	B
It's fenced about with custom and law and they give it a prettier name	C
But spite of the paltry wage that's paid it's slavery all the same	C
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In a handsome home in a stately town is worthy Mrs MacFee	D
Chairwoman known of a Christian guild for a noble dame is she	E
Her doors are open to strangers all who call and leave their card	F
But Amelia Jane who left last week declares the place was hard	F
Surely Amelia Jane was wrong she should have been happy to stay	G
For she's only hanging around the town looking for work today	G
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Such a good woman is Mrs MacFee toiling with voice and hand	H
In the cause of the poor little Indian girls away in a distant land	H
Such a good woman is Mrs MacFee for hers is an open door	I
And her name's at the top of the charity list for the wives of the drunken poor	J
But Amelia Jane has a hungry look with hollows under the eyes	K
She says she was starved but everyone knows that Amelia Jane tells lies	K
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Such a good woman is Mrs MacFee she has family prayers at night	L
And she loves she says to make the lives of her poorer sisters bright	L
Amelia Jane has a hardened heart she talks of her weary feet	M
And says that in spite of all the prayers she had never enough to eat	M
It was hard to join the chorused words of 'Give us our daily bread'	M
And after washing the dishes up to stagger hungry to bed	M
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Once in the week Amelia Jane got out for an hour or two	N
Once in a fortnight went to church with another slave she knew	N
She never had time to read a book and the changeless mill went round	M
And nobody knew how she ached at night while body and soul were ground	M
But these are the lies of Amelia Jane and it's wrong to set them down	O
For everyone knows that Mrs MacFee is the kindest woman in town	O
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Silly and light is Amelia Jane she has no ideas of her own	P
You never would think her the bright little girl that you once on a time had known	P
She was clever enough when she went to school she was pretty enough in her way	G
She hasn't improved her schoolmates think when they met her in town today	G
And it's all her fault for whatever the cause I am sure that Mrs MacFee	D
Is a model mistress in every way and with that you will all agree	E
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In the lands away beyond the sea where Khan and Sultan rule	A
Where they drink their coffee thick and black and sip the sherbet cool	A
They have white Circassian girls for slaves as well as the Negro black	B
And it seems to me in our free land that slavery's coming back	B
It's fenced about with custom and law and they give it a prettier name	C
But spite of the paltry wage that's paid it's slavery all the same	C

David Mckee Wright

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