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OH when I was a little Ghost	A
A merry time had we	B
Each seated on his favourite post	A
We chumped and chawed the buttered toast	A
They gave us for our tea	B
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That story is in print I cried	C
Don't say it's not because	D
It's known as well as Bradshaw's Guide	C
The Ghost uneasily replied	C
He hardly thought it was	E
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It's not in Nursery Rhymes And yet	F
I almost think it is	G
'Three little Ghosteses' were set	F
'On posteses ' you know and ate	H
Their 'buttered toasteses '	-
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I have the book so if you doubt it	I
I turned to search the shelf	J
Don't stir he cried We'll do without it	I
I now remember all about it	I
I wrote the thing myself	J
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It came out in a 'Monthly ' or	K
At least my agent said it did	L
Some literary swell who saw	M
It thought it seemed adapted for	K
The Magazine he edited	N
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My father was a Brownie Sir	O
My mother was a Fairy	B
The notion had occurred to her	O
The children would be happier	O
If they were taught to vary	B
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The notion soon became a craze	P
And when it once began she	B
Brought us all out in different ways	P
One was a Pixy two were Fays	P
Another was a Banshee	B
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The Fetch and Kelpie went to school	Q
And gave a lot of trouble	R
Next came a Poltergeist and Ghoul	Q
And then two Trolls which broke the rule	Q
A Goblin and a Double	R
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If that's a snuff box on the shelf	J
He added with a yawn	S
I'll take a pinch next came an Elf	J
And then a Phantom that's myself	J
And last a Leprechaun	S
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One day some Spectres chanced to call	T
Dressed in the usual white	U
I stood and watched them in the hall	T
And couldn't make them out at all	T
They seemed so strange a sight	U
	-
I wondered what on earth they were	O
That looked all head and sack	V
But Mother told me not to stare	W
And then she twitched me by the hair	W
And punched me in the back	V
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Since then I've often wished that I	X
Had been a Spectre born	S
But what's the use He heaved a sigh	X
THEY are the ghost nobility	B
And look on US with scorn	S
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My phantom life was soon begun	S
When I was barely six	P
I went out with an older one	S
And just at first I thought it fun	S
And learned a lot of tricks	P
	-
I've haunted dungeons castles towers	P
Wherever I was sent	Y
I've often sat and howled for hours	P
Drenched to the skin with driving showers	P
Upon a battlement	Z
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It's quite old fashioned now to groan	S
When you begin to speak	A2
This is the newest thing in tone	S
And here it chilled me to the bone	S
He gave an AWFUL squeak	A2
	-
Perhaps he added to YOUR ear	B2
That sounds an easy thing	C2
Try it yourself my little dear	D2
It took ME something like a year	D2
With constant practising	C2
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And when you've learned to squeak my man	S
And caught the double sob	E2
You're pretty much where you began	S
Just try and gibber if you can	S
That's something LIKE a job	E2
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I'VE tried it and can only say	P
I'm sure you couldn't do it e	B
ven if you practised night and day	P
Unless you have a turn that way	P
And natural ingenuity	B
	-
Shakspeare I think it is who treats	P
Of Ghosts in days of old	F2
Who 'gibbered in the Roman streets '	-
Dressed if you recollect in sheets	P
They must have found it cold	F2
	-
I've often spent ten pounds on stuff	G2
In dressing as a Double	R
But though it answers as a puff	G2
It never has effect enough	G2
To make it worth the trouble	R
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Long bills soon quenched the little thirst	H2
I had for being funny	B
The setting up is always worst	H2
Such heaps of things you want at first	H2
One must be made of money	B
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For instance take a Haunted Tower	O
With skull cross bones and sheet	I2
Blue lights to burn say two an hour	O
Condensing lens of extra power	O
And set of chains complete	I2
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What with the things you have to hire	O
The fitting on the robe	J2
And testing all the coloured fire	O
The outfit of itself would tire	O
The patience of a Job	E2
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And then they're so fastidious	P
The Haunted House Committee	B
I've often known them make a fuss	P
Because a Ghost was French or Russ	P
Or even from the City	B
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Some dialects are objected to	K2
For one the IRISH brogue is	P
And then for all you have to do	K2
One pound a week they offer you	K2
And find yourself in Bogies	P

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