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Ben Battle was a soldier bold	A
And used to war's alarms	B
But a cannon ball took off his legs	C
So he laid down his arms	B
	-
Now as they bore him off the field	D
Said he Let others shoot	E
For here I leave my second leg	F
And the Forty second Foot	G
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The army surgeons made him limbs	H
Said he They're only pegs	C
But there's as wooden members quite	I
As represent my legs	C
	-
Now Ben he loved a pretty maid	J
Her name was Nelly Gray	K
So he went to pay her his devours	L
When he'd devour'd his pay	K
	-
But when he called on Nelly Gray	K
She made him quite a scoff	M
And when she saw his wooden legs	C
Began to take them off	M
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O Nelly Gray O Nelly Gray	K
Is this your love so warm	N
The love that loves a scarlet coat	O
Should be more uniform	N
	-
Said she I loved a soldier once	P
For he was blithe and brave	Q
But I will never have a man	R
With both legs in the grave	Q
	-
Before you had those timber toes	S
Your love I did allow	T
But then you know you stand upon	U
Another footing now	T
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O Nelly Gray O Nelly Gray	K
For all your jeering speeches	V
At duty's call I left my legs	C
In Badajos's breaches	W
	-
Why then said she you've lost the feet	X
Of legs in war's alarms	B
And now you cannot wear your shoes	Y
Upon your feats of arms	B
	-
O false and fickle Nelly Gray	K
I know why you refuse	Y
Though I've no feet some other man	R
Is standing in my shoes	Y
	-
I wish I ne'er had seen your face	Z
But now a long farewell	A2
For you will be my death alas	B2
You will not be my Nell	A2
	-
Now when he went from Nelly Gray	K
His heart so heavy got	C2
And life was such a burthen grown	D2
It made him take a knot	C2
	-
So round his melancholy neck	E2
A rope he did entwine	F2
And for his second time in life	G2
Enlisted in the Line	F2
	-
One end he tied around a beam	H2
And then removed his pegs	C
And as his legs were off of course	I2
He soon was off his legs	C
	-
And there he hung till he was dead	J2
As any nail in town	K2
For though distress had cut him up	L2
It could not cut him down	K2
	-
A dozen men sat on his corpse	M2
To find out why he died	N2
And they buried Ben in four cross roads	O2
With a stake in his inside	N2

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