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A proud Pasha was BAILEY BEN	A
His wives were three his tails were ten	A
His form was dignified but stout	B
Men called him Little Roundabout	B
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HIS IMPORTANCE	C
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Pale Pilgrims came from o'er the sea	D
To wait on PASHA BAILEY B	D
All bearing presents in a crowd	E
For B was poor as well as proud	E
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HIS PRESENTS	F
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They brought him onions strung on ropes	G
And cold boiled beef and telescopes	G
And balls of string and shrimps and guns	H
And chops and tacks and hats and buns	H
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MORE OF THEM	I
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They brought him white kid gloves and pails	J
And candlesticks and potted quails	J
And capstan bars and scales and weights	K
And ornaments for empty grates	K
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WHY I MENTION THESE	L
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My tale is not of these oh no	M
I only mention them to show	M
The divers gifts that divers men	A
Brought o'er the sea to BAILEY BEN	A
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HIS CONFIDANT	N
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A confidant had BAILEY B	D
A gay Mongolian dog was he	D
I am not good at Turkish names	O
And so I call him SIMPLE JAMES	O
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HIS CONFIDANT'S COUNTENANCE	C
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A dreadful legend you might trace	P
In SIMPLE JAMES'S honest face	P
For there you read in Nature's print	Q
A Scoundrel of the Deepest Tint	Q
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HIS CHARACTER	R
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A deed of blood or fire or flames	O
Was meat and drink to SIMPLE JAMES	O
To hide his guilt he did not plan	S
But owned himself a bad young man	S
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THE AUTHOR TO HIS READER	R
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And why on earth good BAILEY BEN	A
The wisest noblest best of men	A
Made SIMPLE JAMES his right hand man	S
Is quite beyond my mental span	S
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THE SAME CONTINUED	T
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But there enough of gruesome deeds	U
My heart in thinking of them bleeds	U
And so let SIMPLE JAMES take wing	V
'Tis not of him I'm going to sing	V
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THE PASHA'S CLERK	W
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Good PASHA BAILEY kept a clerk	W
For BAILEY only made his mark	X
His name was MATTHEW WYCOMBE COO	Y
A man of nearly forty two	Y
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HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS	F
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No person that I ever knew	Y
Could yodel half as well as COO	Y
And Highlanders exclaimed Eh weel	Z
When COO began to dance a reel	Z
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HIS KINDNESS TO THE PASHA'S WIVES	A2
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He used to dance and sing and play	Z
In such an unaffected way	Z
He cheered the unexciting lives	B2
Of PASHA BAILEY'S lovely wives	A2
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THE AUTHOR TO HIS READER	R
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But why should I encumber you	Y
With histories of MATTHEW COO	Y
Let MATTHEW COO at once take wing	V
'Tis not of COO I'm going to sing	V
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THE AUTHOR'S MUSE	C2
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Let me recall my wandering Muse	C2
She SHALL be steady if I choose	C2
She roves instead of helping me	D
To tell the deeds of BAILEY B	D
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THE PASHA'S VISITOR	R
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One morning knocked at half past eight	D2
A tall Red Indian at his gate	D2
In Turkey as you're p'raps aware	E2
Red Indians are extremely rare	E2
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THE VISITOR'S OUTFIT	F2
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Mocassins decked his graceful legs	G2
His eyes were black and round as eggs	G2
And on his neck instead of beads	U
Hung several Catawampous seeds	U
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WHAT THE VISITOR SAID	H2
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Ho ho he said thou pale faced one	I2
Poor offspring of an Eastern sun	I2
You've NEVER seen the Red Man skip	J2
Upon the banks of Mississip	J2
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THE AUTHOR'S MODERATION	I2
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To say that BAILEY oped his eyes	K2
Would feebly paint his great surprise	K2
To say it almost made him die	L2
Would be to paint it much too high	L2
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THE AUTHOR TO HIS READER	R
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But why should I ransack my head	H2
To tell you all that Indian said	H2
We'll let the Indian man take wing	V
'Tis not of him I'm going to sing	V
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THE READER TO THE AUTHOR	R
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Come come I say that's quite enough	M2
Of this absurd disjointed stuff	M2
Now let's get on to that affair	E2
About LIEUTENANT COLONEL FLARE	E2

William Schwenck Gilbert

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