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I	A
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'Twas in the year two thousand and one	B
A pleasant morning of May	C
I sat on the gallows tree all alone	D
A channting a merry lay	C
To think how the pest had spared my life	E
To sing with the larks that day	C
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II	A
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When up the heath came a jolly knave	F
Like a scarecrow all in rags	G
It made me crow to see his old duds	H
All abroad in the wind like flags	G
So up he came to the timber's foot	I
And pitch'd down his greasy bags	G
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III	A
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Good Lord how blythe the old beggar was	J
At pulling out his scraps	K
The very sight of his broken orts	K
Made a work in his wrinkled chaps	K
Come down says he you Newgate bird	L
And have a taste of my snaps	K
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IV	F
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Then down the rope like a tar from the mast	M
I slided and by him stood	N
But I wish'd myself on the gallows again	O
When I smelt that beggar's food	P
A foul beef bone and a mouldy crust	Q
Oh quoth he the heavens are good	N
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V	F
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Then after this grace he cast him down	R
Says I You'll get sweeter air	S
A pace or two off on the windward side	T
For the felons' bones lay there	S
But he only laugh'd at the empty skulls	K
And offer'd them part of his fare	S
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VI	F
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I never harm'd them and they won't harm me	F
Let the proud and the rich be cravens	K
I did not like that strange beggar man	U
He look'd so up at the heavens	K
Anon he shook out his empty old poke	V
There's the crumbs saith he for the ravens	K
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VII	F
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It made me angry to see his face	K
It had such a jesting look	W
But while I made up my mind to speak	X
A small case bottle he took	W
Quoth he Though I gather the green water cress	K
My drink is not of the brook	W
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VIII	F
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Full manners like he tender'd the dram	Y
Oh it came of a dainty cask	Z
But whenever it came to his turn to pull	A2
Your leave good sir I must ask	Z
But I always wipe the brim with my sleeve	F
When a hangman sups at my flask	Z
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IX	K
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And then he laugh'd so loudly and long	B2
The churl was quite out of breath	C2
I thought the very Old One was come	D2
To mock me before my death	C2
And wish'd I had buried the dead men's bones	K
That were lying about the heath	E2
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X	K
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But the beggar gave me a jolly clap	F2
Come let us pledge each other	G2
For all the wide world is dead beside	T
And we are brother and brother	G2
I've a yearning for thee in my heart	H2
As if we had come of one mother	G2
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XI	K
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I've a yearning for thee in my heart	H2
That almost makes me weep	I2
For as I pass'd from town to town	R
The folks were all stone asleep	I2
But when I saw thee sitting aloft	J2
It made me both laugh and leap	I2
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XII	K
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Now a curse I thought be on his love	F
And a curse upon his mirth	K2
An it were not for that beggar man	U
I'd be the King of the earth	K2
But I promis'd myself an hour should come	D2
To make him rue his birth	K2
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XIII	K
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So down we sat and bons'd again	O
Till the sun was in mid sky	F
When just as the gentle west wind came	L2
We hearken'd a dismal cry	F
Up up on the tree quoth the beggar man	U
Till those horrible dogs go by	F
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XIV	F
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And lo from the forest's far off skirts	K
They came all yelling for gore	M2
A hundred hounds pursuing at once	K
And a panting hart before	M2
Till he sunk adown at the gallows' foot	I
And there his haunches they tore	M2
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XV	F
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His haunches they tore without a horn	N2
To tell when the chase was done	B
And there was not a single scarlet coat	O2
To flaunt it in the sun	B
I turn'd and look'd at the beggar man	U
And his tears dropt one by one	B
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XVI	F
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And with curses sore he chid at the hounds	K
Till the last dropt out of sight	P2
Anon saith he Let's down again	O
And ramble for our delight	P2
For the world's all free and we may choose	K
A right cozie barn for to night	P2
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XVII	F
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With that he set up his staff on end	Q2
And it fell with the point due West	R2
So we far'd that way to a city great	S2
Where the folks had died of the pest	R2
It was fine to enter in house and hall	T2
Wherever it liked me best	R2
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XVIII	F
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For the porters all were stiff and cold	U2
And could not lift their heads	K
And when we came where their masters lay	C
The rats leapt out of the beds	K
The grandest palaces in the land	V2
Were as free as workhouse sheds	K
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XIX	K
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But the beggar man made a mumping face	K
And knocked at every gate	S2
It made me curse to hear how he whined	S2
So our fellowship turn'd to hate	S2
And I bade him walk the world by himself	F
For I scorn'd so humble a mate	S2
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XX	K
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So he turn'd right and I turn'd left	S2
As if we had never met	S2
And I chose a fair stone house for myself	F
For the city was all to let	S2
And for three brave holydays drank my fill	W2
Of the choicest that I could get	S2
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XXI	K
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And because my jerking was coarse and worn	N2
I got me a properer vest	S2
It was purple velvet stitch'd o'er with gold	S2
And a shining star at the breast	S2
'Twas enough to fetch old Joan from her grave	F
To see me so purely drest	S2
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XXII	K
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But Joan was dead and under the mould	S2
And every buxom lass	K
In vain I watch'd at the window pane	X2
For a Christian soul to pass	K
But sheep and kine wander'd up the street	S2
And brows'd on the new come grass	K
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XXIII	K
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When lo I spied the old beggar man	U
And lustily he did sing	Y2
His rags were lapp'd in a scarlet cloak	V
And a crown he had like a King	Y2
So he stept right up before my gate	S2
And danc'd me a saucy fling	Y2
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XXIV	F
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Heaven mend us all but within my mind	S2
I had kill'd him then and there	S
To see him lording so braggart like	Z2
That was born to his beggar's fare	S
And how he had stolen the royal crown	R
His betters were meant to wear	S
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XXV	F
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But God forbid that a thief should die	S2
Without his share of the laws	K
So I nimbly whipt my tackle out	S2
And soon tied up his claws	K
I was judge myself and jury and all	T2
And solemnly tried the cause	K
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XXVI	F
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But the beggar man would not plead but cried	S2
Like a babe without its corals	K
For he knew how hard it is apt to go	A3
When the law and a thief have quarrels	K
There was not a Christian soul alive	F
To speak a word for his morals	K
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XXVII	F
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Oh how gaily I doff'd my costly gear	B3
And put on my work day clothes	K
I was tired of such a long Sunday life	F
And never was one of the sloths	K
But the beggar man grumbled a weary deal	C3
And made many crooked mouths	K
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XXVIII	F
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So I haul'd him off to the gallows' foot	S2
And blinded him in his bags	K
'Twas a weary job to heave him up	D3
For a doom'd man always lags	K
But by ten of the clock he was off his legs	K
In the wind and airing his rags	K
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XXIX	K
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So there he hung and there I stood	S2
The LAST MAN left alive	F
To have my own will of all the earth	K2
Quoth I now I shall thrive	F
But when was ever honey made	S2
With one bee in a hive	F
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XXX	K
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My conscience began to gnaw my heart	S2
Before the day was done	B
For other men's lives had all gone out	S2
Like candles in the sun	B
But it seem'd as if I had broke at last	S2
A thousand necks in one	B
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XXXI	K
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So I went and cut his body down	R
To bury it decentlie	C3
God send there were any good soul alive	F
To do the like by me	K
But the wild dogs came with terrible speed	S2
And bay'd me up the tree	K
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XXXII	K
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My sight was like a drunkard's sight	S2
And my head began to swim	E3
To see their jaws all white with foam	F3
Like the ravenous ocean brim	E3
But when the wild dogs trotted away	C
Their jaws were bloody and grim	E3
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XXXIII	K
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Their jaws were bloody and grim good Lord	S2
But the beggar man where was he	K
There was nought of him but some ribbons of rags	K
Below the gallows' tree	K
I know the Devil when I am dead	S2
Will send his hounds for me	K
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XXXIV	F
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I've buried my babies one by one	B
And dug the deep hole for Joan	D
And cover'd the faces of kith and kin	G3
And felt the old churchyard stone	D
Go cold to my heart full many a time	H3
But I never felt so lone	D
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XXXV	F
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For the lion and Adam were company	K
And the tiger him beguil'd	S2
But the simple kine are foes to my life	F
And the household brutes are wild	S2
If the veriest cur would lick my hand	S2
I could love it like a child	S2
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XXXVI	F
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And the beggar man's ghost besets my dreams	K
At night to make me madder	G2
And my wretched conscience within my breast	S2
Is like a stinging adder	G2
I sigh when I pass the gallows' foot	S2
And look at the rope and ladder	G2
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XXXVII	F
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For hanging looks sweet but alas in vain	X2
My desperate fancy begs	K
I must turn my cup of sorrows quite up	D3
And drink it to the dregs	K
For there is not another man alive	F
In the world to pull my legs	K