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An elderly person a prophet by trade	A
With his quips and tips	B
On withered old lips	B
He married a young and a beautiful maid	A
The cunning old blade	A
Though rather decayed	A
He married a beautiful beautiful maid	A
	-
She was only eighteen and as fair as could be	C
With her tempting smiles	D
And maidenly wiles	D
And he was a trifle past seventy three	C
Now what she could see	C
Is a puzzle to me	C
In a prophet of seventy seventy three	C
	-
Of all their acquaintances bidden or bad	E
With their loud high jinks	F
And underbred winks	F
None thought they'd a family have but they had	E
A dear little lad	E
Who drove 'em half mad	E
For he turned out a horribly fast little cad	E
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For when he was born he astonished all by	G
With their Law dear me	C
Did ever you see	C
He'd a pipe in his mouth and a glass in his eye	G
A hat all awry	G
An octagon tie	G
And a miniature miniature glass in his eye	G
	-
He grumbled at wearing a frock and a cap	H
With his Oh dear oh	I
And his Hang it 'oo know	I
And he turned up his nose at his excellent pap	H
My friends it's a tap	H
Dat is not worf a rap	H
Now this was remarkably excellent pap	H
	-
He'd chuck his nurse under the chin and he'd say	J
With his Fal lal lal	K
'Oo doosed fine gal	K
This shocking precocity drove 'em away	J
A month from to day	J
Is as long as I'll stay	J
Then I'd wish if you please for to toddle away	J
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His father a simple old gentleman he	C
With nursery rhyme	L
And Once on a time	L
Would tell him the story of Little Bo P	C
So pretty was she	C
So pretty and wee	C
As pretty as pretty as pretty could be	C
	-
But the babe with a dig that would startle an ox	M
With his C'ck Oh my	G
Go along wiz 'oo fie	N
Would exclaim I'm afraid 'oo a socking ole fox	M
Now a father it shocks	M
And it whitens his locks	M
When his little babe calls him a shocking old fox	M
	-
The name of his father he'd couple and pair	O
With his ill bred laugh	N
And insolent chaff	N
With those of the nursery heroines rare	O
Virginia the Fair	O
Or Good Goldenhair	O
Till the nuisance was more than a prophet could bear	O
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There's Jill and White Cat said the bold little brat	P
With his loud Ha ha	Q
'Oo sly ickle Pa	Q
Wiz 'oo Beauty Bo Peep and 'oo Mrs Jack Sprat	P
I've noticed 'oo pat	P
MY pretty White Cat	P
I sink dear mamma ought to know about dat	P
	-
He early determined to marry and wive	N
For better or worse	R
With his elderly nurse	R
Which the poor little boy didn't live to contrive	N
His hearth didn't thrive	N
No longer alive	N
He died an enfeebled old dotard at five	N
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MORAL	S
	-
Now elderly men of the bachelor crew	O
With wrinkled hose	T
And spectacled nose	T
Don't marry at all you may take it as true	O
If ever you do	O
The step you will rue	O
For your babes will be elderly elderly too	O

William Schwenck Gilbert

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