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Ye people of Ireland both country and city	A
Come listen with patience and hear out my ditty	A
At this time I'll choose to be wiser than witty	A
Which nobody can deny	B
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The halfpence are coming the nation's undoing	C
There's an end of your ploughing and baking and brewing	C
In short you must all go to wreck and to ruin	D
Which c	A
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Both high men and low men and thick men and tall men	E
And rich men and poor men and free men and thrall men	E
Will suffer and this man and that man and all men	E
Which c	A
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The soldier is ruin'd poor man by his pay	F
His fivepence will prove but a farthing a day	F
For meat or for drink or he must run away	F
Which c	A
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When he pulls out his twopence the tapster says not	G
That ten times as much he must pay for his shot	G
And thus the poor soldier must soon go to pot	G
Which c	A
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If he goes to the baker the baker will huff	H
And twentypence have for a twopenny loaf	I
Then dog rogue and rascal and so kick and cuff	H
Which c	A
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Again to the market whenever he goes	J
The butcher and soldier must be mortal foes	J
One cuts off an ear and the other a nose	J
Which c	A
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The butcher is stout and he values no swagger	K
A cleaver's a match any time for a dagger	K
And a blue sleeve may give such a cuff as may stagger	K
Which c	A
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The beggars themselves will be broke in a trice	L
When thus their poor farthings are sunk in their price	L
When nothing is left they must live on their lice	L
Which c	A
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The squire who has got him twelve thousand a year	M
O Lord what a mountain his rents would appear	M
Should he take them he would not have house room I fear	M
Which c	A
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Though at present he lives in a very large house	N
There would then not be room in it left for a mouse	N
But the squire is too wise he will not take a souse	N
Which c	A
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The farmer who comes with his rent in this cash	O
For taking these counters and being so rash	O
Will be kick'd out of doors both himself and his trash	O
Which c	A
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For in all the leases that ever we hold	P
We must pay our rent in good silver and gold	P
And not in brass tokens of such a base mould	P
Which c	A
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The wisest of lawyers all swear they will warrant	Q
No money but silver and gold can be current	Q
And since they will swear it we all may be sure on't	A
Which c	A
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And I think after all it would be very strange	R
To give current money for base in exchange	R
Like a fine lady swapping her moles for the mange	R
Which c	A
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But read the king's patent and there you will find	S
That no man need take them but who has a mind	S
For which we must say that his Majesty's kind	S
Which c	A
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Now God bless the Drapier who open'd our eyes	N
I'm sure by his book that the writer is wise	N
He shows us the cheat from the end to the rise	N
Which c	A
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Nay farther he shows it a very hard case	N
That this fellow Wood of a very bad race	N
Should of all the fine gentry of Ireland take place	N
Which c	A
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That he and his halfpence should come to weigh down	T
Our subjects so loyal and true to the crown	T
But I hope after all that they will be his own	U
Which c	A
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This book I do tell you is writ for your goods	N
And a very good book 'tis against Mr Wood's	N
If you stand true together he's left in the suds	N
Which c	A
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Ye shopmen and tradesmen and farmers go read it	V
For I think in my soul at this time that you need it	V
Or egad if you don't there's an end of your credit	W
Which nobody can deny	B

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