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AGAINST WOOD'S HALFPENCE	A
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To the tune of London is a fine town c	B
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O Dublin is a fine town	C
And a gallant city	B
For Wood's trash is tumbled down	C
Come listen to my ditty	B
O Dublin is a fine town c	B
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In full assembly all did meet	D
Of every corporation	E
From every lane and every street	D
To save the sinking nation	E
O Dublin c	B
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The bankers would not let it pass	A
For to be Wood's tellers	A
Instead of gold to count his brass	A
And fill their small beer cellars	A
O Dublin c	B
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And next to them to take his coin	F
The Gild would not submit	G
They all did go and all did join	F
And so their names they writ	G
O Dublin c	B
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The brewers met within their hall	H
And spoke in lofty strains	A
These halfpence shall not pass at all	H
They want so many grains	A
O Dublin c	B
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The tailors came upon this pinch	I
And wish'd the dog in hell	J
Should we give this same Wood an inch	I
We know he'd take an ell	J
O Dublin c	B
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But now the noble clothiers	A
Of honour and renown	C
If they take Wood's halfpence	A
They will be all cast down	C
O Dublin c	B
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The shoemakers came on the next	K
And said they would much rather	L
Than be by Wood's copper vext	K
Take money stampt on leather	L
O Dublin c	B
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The chandlers next in order came	M
And what they said was right	K
They hoped the rogue that laid the scheme	N
Would soon be brought to light	K
O Dublin c	B
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And that if Wood were now withstood	K
To his eternal scandal	O
That twenty of these halfpence should	K
Not buy a farthing candle	O
O Dublin c	B
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The butchers then those men so brave	P
Spoke thus and with a frown	C
Should Wood that cunning scoundrel knave	P
Come here we'd knock him down	C
O Dublin c	B
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For any rogue that comes to truck	Q
And trick away our trade	K
Deserves not only to be stuck	Q
But also to be flay'd	K
O Dublin c	B
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The bakers in a ferment were	L
And wisely shook their head	K
Should these brass tokens once come here	R
We'd all have lost our bread	K
O Dublin c	B
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It set the very tinkers mad	K
The baseness of the metal	O
Because they said it was so bad	K
It would not mend a kettle	O
O Dublin c	B
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The carpenters and joiners stood	K
Confounded in a maze	A
They seem'd to be all in a wood	K
And so they went their ways	A
O Dublin c	B
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This coin how well could we employ it	K
In raising of a statue	K
To those brave men that would destroy it	K
And then old Wood have at you	K
O Dublin c	B
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God prosper long our tradesmen then	S
And so he will I hope	T
May they be still such honest men	S
When Wood has got a rope	T
O Dublin is a fine town c	B

Jonathan Swift

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