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I'll tell you the story of Balbus	A
You know him as builded a wall	B
I'll tell you the reason he built it	C
And the place where it happened an' all	B
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This 'ere Balbus though only a Tackler	D
Were the most enterprising of men	E
He'd heard Chicken Farms were lucrative	F
So he went out and purchased a hen	E
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'Twere a White Wyandot he called Mabel	G
At laying she turned out a peach	H
And her eggs being all double yoked ones	A
He reckoned they'd fetch twopence each	H
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When he took them along to the market	I
And found that the eggs that sold best	J
Were them as came over from China	K
He were vexed but in no ways depressed	J
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For Balbus though only a Tackler	D
In business were far from a dunce	A
So he packed Mabel up in a basket	I
And started for China at once	A
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When he got there he took a small holding	L
And selecting the sunniest part	M
He lifted the lid of the basket	I
And said Come on lass make a start	M
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The 'en needed no second biddin'	K
She sat down and started to lay	N
She'd been saving up all the way over	D
And laid sixteen eggs straight away	N
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When the Chinamen heard what had happened	O
Their cheeks went the colour of mud	P
They said it were sheer mass production	K
As had to be nipped in the bud	P
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They formed themselves in a committee	Q
And tried to arrive at some course	A
Whereby they could limit the output	R
Without doing harm to the source	A
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At the finish they came to t' conclusion	K
That the easiest road they could take	S
Were to fill the 'en's nest up wi' scrap iron	K
So as fast as she laid eggs they'd break	S
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When Balbus went out the next morning	L
To fetch the eggs Mabel had laid	T
He found nowt but shells and albumen	K
He were hipped but in no ways dismayed	T
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For Balbus though only a Tackler	D
He'd a brain that were fertile and quick	U
He bought all the scrap iron in t' district	V
To stop them repeating the trick	U
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But next day to his great consternation	K
He were met with another reverse	A
For instead of old iron they'd used clinker	D
And the eggs looked the same or worse	A
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'Twere a bit of a set back for Balbus	A
But he wasn't downhearted at all	B
And when t' Chinamen came round next evening	L
They found he were building a wall	B
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That won't keep us out of your 'en 'ouse	A
Said one with a smug kind of grin	K
It's not for that purpose said Balbus	A
When it's done it will keep you lot in	K
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The Chinamen all burst out laffing	L
They thowt as he'd gone proper daft	W
But Balbus got on wi' his building	L
And said He laffed last who last laffed	W
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Day by day Balbus stuck to his building	L
And his efforts he never did cease	A
Till he'd builded the Great Wall of China	K
So as Mabel could lay eggs in peace	A

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