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Speaking of banks I'm bound to say	A
That a bank of tin is far the best	B
And I know of one that has stood for years	C
In a pleasant home away out west	B
It has stood for years on the mantelpiece	C
Between the clock and the Wedgwood plate	D
A wonderful bank as you'll concede	E
When you've heard the things I'll now relate	D
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This bank was made of McKinley tin	F
Well soldered up at sides and back	G
But it didn't resemble tin at all	H
For they'd painted it over an iron black	G
And that it really was a bank	I
'Twas an easy thing to see and say	C
For above the door in gorgeous red	J
Appeared the letters B A N K	C
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The bank had been so well devised	K
And wrought so cunningly that when	L
You put your money in at the hole	M
It couldn't get out of that hole again	L
Somewhere about that stanch snug thing	N
A secret spring was hid away	C
But where it was or how it worked	O
Excuse me please but I will not say	C
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Thither with dimpled cheeks aglow	P
Came pretty children oftentimes	C
And standing up on stool or chair	Q
Put in their divers pence and dimes	C
Once Uncle Hank came home from town	R
After a cycle of grand events	C
And put in a round blue ivory thing	N
He said was good for cents	C
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The bank went clinkety clinkety clink	S
And larger grew the precious sum	T
Which grandma said she hoped would prove	U
A gracious boon to heathendom	T
But there were those I call no names	C
Who did not fancy any plan	V
That did not in some wise involve	W
The candy and banana man	V
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Listen once when the wind went Yooooooo	X
And the raven croaked in the tangled tarn	V
When with a wail the screech owl flew	Y
Out of her lair in the haunted barn	V
There came three burglars down the road	Z
Three burglars skilled in arts of sin	V
And they cried What's this Aha Oho	A2
And straightway tackled the bank of tin	V
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They burgled from half past ten p m	T
Till the village bell struck four o'clock	B2
They hunted and searched and guessed and tried	C2
But the little tin bank would not unlock	B2
They couldn't discover the secret spring	N
So when the barn yard rooster crowed	Z
They up with their tools and stole away	C
With the bitter remark that they'd be blowed	Z
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Next morning came a sweet faced child	D2
And reached her dimpled hand to take	E2
A nickel to send to the heathen poor	F2
And a nickel to spend for her stomach's sake	E2
She pressed the hidden secret spring	N
And lo the bank flew open then	V
With a cheery creak that seemed to say	C
I'm glad to see you come again	V
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If you were I and if I were you	Y
What would we keep our money in	V
In a downtown bank of British steel	G2
Or an at home bank of McKinley tin	V
Some want silver and some want gold	H2
But the little tin bank that wants the two	Y
And is run on the double standard plan	V
Why that is the bank for me and you	Y

Eugene Field

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