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From east and south the holy clan	B
Of Bishops gathered to a man	B
To Synod called Pan Anglican	C
In flocking crowds they came	D
Among them was a Bishop who	E
Had lately been appointed to	E
The balmy isle of Rum ti Foo	E
And PETER was his name	D
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His people twenty three in sum	F
They played the eloquent tum tum	F
And lived on scalps served up in rum	F
The only sauce they knew	E
When first good BISHOP PETER came	F
For PETER was that Bishop's name	F
To humour them he did the same	F
As they of Rum ti Foo	E
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His flock I've often heard him tell	G
His name was PETER loved him well	G
And summoned by the sound of bell	G
In crowds together came	F
Oh massa why you go away	H
Oh MASSA PETER please to stay	H
They called him PETER people say	H
Because it was his name	F
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He told them all good boys to be	I
And sailed away across the sea	I
At London Bridge that Bishop he	I
Arrived one Tuesday night	J
And as that night he homeward strode	K
To his Pan Anglican abode	K
He passed along the Borough Road	K
And saw a gruesome sight	J
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He saw a crowd assembled round	L
A person dancing on the ground	L
Who straight began to leap and bound	L
With all his might and main	M
To see that dancing man he stopped	N
Who twirled and wriggled skipped and hopped	N
Then down incontinently dropped	N
And then sprang up again	O
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The Bishop chuckled at the sight	J
This style of dancing would delight	J
A simple Rum ti Foozleite	J
I'll learn it if I can	B
To please the tribe when I get back	P
He begged the man to teach his knack	P
Right Reverend Sir in half a crack	P
Replied that dancing man	B
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The dancing man he worked away	H
And taught the Bishop every day	H
The dancer skipped like any fay	H
Good PETER did the same	F
The Bishop buckled to his task	Q
With BATTEMENTS and PAS DE BASQUE	Q
I'll tell you if you care to ask	Q
That PETER was his name	F
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Come walk like this the dancer said	J
Stick out your toes stick in your head	J
Stalk on with quick galvanic tread	J
Your fingers thus extend	J
The attitude's considered quaint	J
The weary Bishop feeling faint	J
Replied I do not say it ain't	J
But 'Time ' my Christian friend	J
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We now proceed to something new	E
Dance as the PAYNES and LAURIS do	E
Like this one two one two one two	E
The Bishop never proud	J
But in an overwhelming heat	J
His name was PETER I repeat	J
Performed the PAYNE and LAURI feat	J
And puffed his thanks aloud	J
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Another game the dancer planned	J
Just take your ankle in your hand	J
And try my lord if you can stand	J
Your body stiff and stark	R
If when revisiting your see	I
You learnt to hop on shore like me	I
The novelty would striking be	I
And must attract remark	R
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No said the worthy Bishop no	S
That is a length to which I trow	S
Colonial Bishops cannot go	S
You may express surprise	T
At finding Bishops deal in pride	J
But if that trick I ever tried	J
I should appear undignified	J
In Rum ti Foozle's eyes	T
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The islanders of Rum ti Foo	E
Are well conducted persons who	E
Approve a joke as much as you	E
And laugh at it as such	U
But if they saw their Bishop land	J
His leg supported in his hand	J
The joke they wouldn't understand	J
'T would pain them very much	U

William Schwenck Gilbert

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