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i A Pathetic Ballad i	A
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Ben Battle was a soldier bold	B
And used to war's alarms	C
But a cannon ball took off his legs	D
So he laid down his arms	C
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Now as they bore him off the field	E
Said he 'Let others shoot	F
For here I leave my second leg	G
And the Forty second Foot '	-
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The army surgeons made him limbs	H
Said he 'They're only pegs	D
But there's as wooden members quite	I
As represent my legs '	-
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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 devoured his pay	K
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But when he called on Nelly Gray	K
She made him quite a scoff	M
And when she saw his wooden legs	D
Began to take them off	M
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'O Nelly Gray O Nelly Gray '	-
Is this your love so warm	N
The love that loves a scarlet coat	O
Should be a little more uniform	N
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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
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'Before you had those timber toes	S
Your love I did allow	T
But then you know you stand upon	U
Another footing now '	-
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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	D
In Badajos's breaches '	-
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'Why then ' said she 'you've lost the feet	W
Of legs in war's alarms	C
And now you cannot wear your shoes	X
Upon your feats of arms '	-
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'O false and fickle Nelly Gray	K
I know why you refuse	X
Though I've no feet some other man	R
Is standing in my shoes	X
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'I wish I ne'er had seen your face	Y
But now a long farewell	Z
For you will be my death' alas	A2
You will not be my Nell '	-
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Now when he went from Nelly Gray	K
His heart so heavy got	B2
And life was such a burden grown	C2
It made him take a knot	B2
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So round his melancholy neck	D2
A rope he did intwine	C2
And for his second time in life	E2
Enlisted in the Line	C2
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One end he tied around a beam	F2
And then removed his pegs	D
And as his legs were off of course	G2
He soon was off his legs	D
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And there he hung till he was dead	H2
As any nail in town	C2
For though distress had cut him up	I2
It could not cut him down	C2
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A dozen men sat on his corpse	J2
To find out why he died	K2
And they buried Ben in four cross roads	L2
With a stake in his inside	K2

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