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Tall and stout and solid looking	A
Yet a wreck	B
None would think Death's finger's hooking	A
Him from deck	B
Cause of half the fun that's started	C
Hard case' Dan	D
Isn't like a broken hearted	C
Ruined man	D
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Walking coat from tail to throat is	E
Frayed and greened	F
Like a man whose other coat is	E
Being cleaned	F
Gone for ever round the edging	A
Past repair	G
Waistcoat pockets frayed with dredging	A
After sprats' no longer there	G
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Wearing summer boots in June or	H
Slippers worn and old	I
Like a man whose other shoon are	J
Getting soled	I
Pants They're far from being recent	I
But perhaps I'd better not	I
Says they are the only decent	I
Pair he's got	I
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And his hat I am afraid is	E
Troubling him	K
Past all lifting to the ladies	L
By the brim	K
But although he'd hardly strike a	M
Girl would Dan	D
Yet he wears his wreckage like a	M
Gentleman	N
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Once no matter how the rest dressed	I
Up or down	O
Once they say he was the best dressed	I
Man in town	O
Must have been before I knew him	K
Now you'd scarcely care to meet	I
And be noticed talking to him	K
In the street	I
	-
Drink the cause and dissipation	N
That is clear	P
Maybe friend or kind relation	N
Cause of beer	P
And the talking fool who never	Q
Reads or thinks	R
Says from hearsay Yes he's clever	Q
But you know he drinks '	-
	-
Been an actor and a writer	Q
Doesn't whine	S
Reckoned now the best reciter	Q
In his line	S
Takes the stage at times and fills it	I
Princess May' or Waterloo'	T
Raise a sneer his first line kills it	I
Brings 'em' too	I
	-
Where he lives or how or wherefore	Q
No one knows	U
Lost his real friends and therefore	Q
Lost his foes	U
Had no doubt his own romances	E
Met his fate	I
Tortured doubtless by the chances	V
And the luck that comes too late	I
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Now and then his boots are polished	I
Collar clean	W
And the worst grease stains abolished	I
By ammonia or benzine	W
Hints of some attempt to shove him	K
From the taps	X
Or of someone left to love him	K
Sister p'r'aps	X
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After all he is a grafter	Q
Earns his cheer	Q
Keeps the room in roars of laughter	Q
When he gets outside a beer	Q
Yarns that would fall flat from others	X
He can tell	T
How he spent his stuff' my brothers	X
You know well	T
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Manner puts a man in mind of	Y
Old club balls and evening dress	X
Ugly with a handsome kind of	Y
Ugliness	X
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	-
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One of those we say of often	N
While hearts swell	T
Standing sadly by the coffin	Z
He looks well '	-
	-
	-
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We may be so goes a rumour	Q
Bad as Dan	D
But we may not have the humour	Q
Of the man	D
Nor the sight well deem it blindness	X
As the general public do	I
And the love of human kindness	X
Or the GRIT to see it through	I

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