| Once upon a time
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| A wooden leg
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| Who was looking for an amateur
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| She thinks to herself "well
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| If nobody wants me
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| I take a bullet in my heart "But suddenly
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| She hears in the distance
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| A bugle call
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| She thought, "Perfect.
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| It's now or never
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| To find me a situation "Arrival on the battlefield
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| At the height of the grapeshot
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| She crosses a cannonball
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| Who whistled at the top of his lungs
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| She said to him: "my friend
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| Your little face kicks me
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| You who are going to kill the Cossacks
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| So be a love
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| Take a little detour for me
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| Before going on the attack
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| But here's the catch
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| I don't like muzhiks
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| And if you want to fix me
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| Turn around instead
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| Pass to the side of the Cossacks
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| Aim at me, this French officer
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| If you smack him a leg
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| You can take my word for it
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| That if the gangrene don't get on it
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| I will be his wooden leg"
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| "It's very delicate
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| What are you asking me there "Replied the cannonball
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| "You have a wooden head
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| That's why you don't understand
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| That's high treason
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| But come on, don't hit yourself
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| Don't make that face
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| Let's have no more bitterness
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| What wouldn't we do
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| For a pretty peg leg
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| I'm going to fly in his feathers "And here he is soaring
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| But to make matters worse
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| The officer who just saw him
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| Bends down and takes it in the face
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| "You moron
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| That's not smart 'cried the wooden leg
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| "Now that he's dead
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| He no longer needs support
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| I was wrong to count on you "" You take me for an idiot "Said the cannonball
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| "But I'm going to possess you
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| Anger makes him drunk
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| And here he goes losing his mind
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| He's going to throw it all away
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| They were court-martialed
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| And to save morality
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| The child was condemned
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| To have the ball to the foot
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| "But it's that it gives me a beautiful leg
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| To always see you in my leg, cried the wooden leg
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| "As long as it lasts I knock on wood..." |