| Chorus:
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| Hey, Peppermint Jack
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| Hey, Peppermint Jack
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| Hey, Peppermint Jack
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| Your hair is gray
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| And your skin is black
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| Too old trey say
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| So you got the sack
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| I recall that we used to buy
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| Pepperminds from a lovely guy
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| He had worked for Icecream Joe
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| Till he was told he had to go
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| He said to himself this wise old man:
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| «Ice is gonna melt but peppermint can’t»
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| So he said to us when we came to school:
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| «Only peppermint really keeps you cool»
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| «Only peppermint really keeps you cool»
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| Chorus
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| Then one day he didn’t appear
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| When we heard why, we were in tears
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| Poor old Jack, how little he earned
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| Went to the place of no return
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| With a piece of chalk we wrote on his stone:
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| «Ice is gonna melt, but peppermint won’t»
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| Never more we heard when we came to school:
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| «Only peppermint really keeps you cool»
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| «Only peppermint really keeps you cool»
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| Chorus
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| Peppermint, peppermint, peppermint Jack
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| Peppermint, peppermint, peppermint Jack
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| Peppermint, peppermint, peppermint Jack |