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It was a robber's daughter and her name was ALICE BROWN	A
Her father was the terror of a small Italian town	A
Her mother was a foolish weak but amiable old thing	B
But it isn't of her parents that I'm going for to sing	B
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As ALICE was a sitting at her window sill one day	C
A beautiful young gentleman he chanced to pass that way	C
She cast her eyes upon him and he looked so good and true	D
That she thought I could be happy with a gentleman like you	D
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And every morning passed her house that cream of gentlemen	E
She knew she might expect him at a quarter unto ten	F
A sorter in the Custom house it was his daily road	G
The Custom house was fifteen minutes' walk from her abode	G
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But ALICE was a pious girl who knew it wasn't wise	H
To look at strange young sorters with expressive purple eyes	H
So she sought the village priest to whom her family confessed	I
The priest by whom their little sins were carefully assessed	I
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Oh holy father ALICE said 't would grieve you would it not	J
To discover that I was a most disreputable lot	J
Of all unhappy sinners I'm the most unhappy one	K
The padre said Whatever have you been and gone and done	K
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I have helped mamma to steal a little kiddy from its dad	L
I've assisted dear papa in cutting up a little lad	L
I've planned a little burglary and forged a little cheque	B
And slain a little baby for the coral on its neck	B
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The worthy pastor heaved a sigh and dropped a silent tear	M
And said You mustn't judge yourself too heavily my dear	N
It's wrong to murder babies little corals for to fleece	O
But sins like these one expiates at half a crown apiece	O
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Girls will be girls you're very young and flighty in your mind	P
Old heads upon young shoulders we must not expect to find	P
We mustn't be too hard upon these little girlish tricks	Q
Let's see five crimes at half a crown exactly twelve and six	Q
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Oh father little Alice cried your kindness makes me weep	R
You do these little things for me so singularly cheap	R
Your thoughtful liberality I never can forget	S
But oh there is another crime I haven't mentioned yet	S
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A pleasant looking gentleman with pretty purple eyes	H
I've noticed at my window as I've sat a catching flies	H
He passes by it every day as certain as can be	T
I blush to say I've winked at him and he has winked at me	T
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For shame said FATHER PAUL my erring daughter On my word	U
This is the most distressing news that I have ever heard	U
Why naughty girl your excellent papa has pledged your hand	V
To a promising young robber the lieutenant of his band	V
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This dreadful piece of news will pain your worthy parents so	W
They are the most remunerative customers I know	W
For many many years they've kept starvation from my doors	X
I never knew so criminal a family as yours	Y
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The common country folk in this insipid neighbourhood	V
Have nothing to confess they're so ridiculously good	V
And if you marry any one respectable at all	Z
Why you'll reform and what will then become of FATHER PAUL	Z
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The worthy priest he up and drew his cowl upon his crown	A
And started off in haste to tell the news to ROBBER BROWN	A
To tell him how his daughter who was now for marriage fit	V
Had winked upon a sorter who reciprocated it	V
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Good ROBBER BROWN he muffled up his anger pretty well	A2
He said I have a notion and that notion I will tell	A2
I will nab this gay young sorter terrify him into fits	B2
And get my gentle wife to chop him into little bits	B2
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I've studied human nature and I know a thing or two	D
Though a girl may fondly love a living gent as many do	D
A feeling of disgust upon her senses there will fall	Z
When she looks upon his body chopped particularly small	Z
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He traced that gallant sorter to a still suburban square	M
He watched his opportunity and seized him unaware	M
He took a life preserver and he hit him on the head	V
And MRS BROWN dissected him before she went to bed	V
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And pretty little ALICE grew more settled in her mind	V
She never more was guilty of a weakness of the kind	V
Until at length good ROBBER BROWN bestowed her pretty hand	V
On the promising young robber the lieutenant of his band	V

William Schwenck Gilbert

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