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In a humble hut on a scrubby flat	A
Near the land of the setting sun	B
Lived a simple but honest rouseabout	A
Who rejoiced in the name of Dunn	B
He could warble as sweet as a bandicoot	A
He could dance like a kangaroo	C
His age it was just about four feet ten	D
And his height about thirty two	C
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He worshipped a beautiful female maid	A
Who lived on a distant plain	E
Whose husband had gone to a far off land	A
And had never come back again	D
She had bright blue hair she had rosy eyes	F
And her cheeks were of golden hue	C
So Tommy set off as the sun went down	G
To tell her he loved her true	C
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He traversed the hills and the mountain peaks	H
He climbed up a rugged plain	E
He swam the beds of the dried up creeks	H
And he tramped o'er the raging main	E
He saw not the wind on the distant hills	I
He heard not the rising moon	J
For his soul was dead and his burning head	A
Was as calm as a big monsoon	J
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His eye like a hurricane roared aloud	A
His voice like the lightning flashed	A
The blustering blizzard it boomed and burst	A
As on through the dust he splashed	A
He rode on a flea bitten chestnut mare	K
With a patent pneumatic tyre	L
And the sparks from the feet of his flying steed	A
Set Billabong Creek on fire	M
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He leapt from the train at the half way house	N
And stood at the maiden's door	O
He wept at the sight of that dear old spot	A
Which he never had seen before	O
He stood on his head at the maiden's feet	A
And he begged her his lot to share	K
Then brushing tear from his glist'ning ear	P
He spoke of his dumb despair	K
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See see he exclaimed to the winsome maid	A
in syllables tall and sweet	A
The whole of my expectations I cast	A
At thy beautiful blushing feet	A
For you I would live through eternity	A
Say yes' for my own sweet sake	Q
And without a murmur I'll sacrifice	R
All the millions I hope to make	Q
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Then the maiden rested her blushing nose	S
For a moment on Tommy's chest	A
And she said as she cuddled his crumpled form	T
To her soft and capacious breast	A
As I have been true in the years to come	U
I'll be true in the past said she	A
And she winked her ear at a native bear	K
That was perched on a pumpkin tree	A

Thomas E. Spencer

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