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I'll tell of Canute King of England	A
A native of Denmark was he	B
His hobbies was roving and raiding	C
And paddling his feet in the sea	B
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By trade he were what's called a Viking	C
Every summer he'd visit our shore	D
Help himself to whatever he wanted	E
And come back in the autumn for more	D
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These trips always showed him a profit	F
But what stumped him to know was this 'ere	D
Where the English folk got all the money	B
He came and took off them each year	D
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After duly considering the matter	D
He concluded as how his best course	G
Were to have an invasion of England	A
And tap the supply at its source	G
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He got other Vikings to join him	H
With a promise of plunder and spoil	I
And raked up atrocity stories	J
To bring all their blood to the boil	I
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They landed one morning at Weymouth	K
And waited for fight to begin	L
While their foe Ethelred the Unready	A
Found his army and got it fell in	L
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When the battle were done Crown of England	A
Changed heads so the history book states	M
From Ethelred's seven and a quarter	D
To King Canutes six and five eights	M
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The Vikings was cheered as the winners	N
Ethelred he went somewhere and died	A
And Canute to his lasting atonement	A
Made the widow Queen Emma his bride	A
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She started to teach him his manners	N
To drink without wetting his nose	O
Put his hand to his mouth and say Pardon	P
Every time the occasion arose	O
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She said his companions was vulgar	D
His habits more easy than free	B
Made him promise no more to disgrace her	D
By paddling his feet in the sea	B
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At the time this 'ere promise meant nothing	C
It were made in the cool of the spring	C
But when summer came in with a heat wave	Q
T' were a totally different thing	C
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He moved his court down to the seaside	A
Where they took off their shoes and their socks	R
And rushed to the water and left him	H
Alone on his throne on the rocks	R
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Said one Come on King have a paddle	S
I'll look after your sceptre and crown	T
He replied Nay I promised the missus	U
And I can't let the old lady down	T
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No need to do that said the Tempter	D
The tide's coming in as you see	B
You promised you wouldn't go to it	A
But you can't stop it coming to thee	B
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And that's how it happened that later	D
When Emma came over the sands	V
She found Canute knee deep in water	D
Trying to shush the sea back with his hands	V
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For not letting on that he'd seen her	D
He was chiding each wave as it came	W
Saying Thus far my lad and no further	D
'Til Emma said What is this game	W
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He replied These 'ere flatterers told me	B
That the sea would obey me and so	X
I'm giving them this demonstration	P
To show what a fat lot they know	X
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You're doing quite right shouted Emma	Y
It's time someone made them look small	Z
Then she took off her shoes and her stockings	A2
And started to paddle an' all	Z

Marriott Edgar

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