| Intro:
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| Have you heard?
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| Have you heard?
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| Have you heard?
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| Have you heard?
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| Haaaaaaaavvvvveeeeeee
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| Have you heard about the big strong man
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| He lived in a caravan
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| Have you heard about the Jeffrey Johnson fight
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| Oh lord what a hell of a fight
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| You can take all the heavyweights you got (Cause you got!)
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| You got a lad that can beat the whole lot (Whole lot!)
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| He use to play all the bells in the belfry,
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| Now he’s going to fight Jack Dempsey.
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| Chorus:
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| Thats my brother Sylvest (What's he got?)
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| He’s got a row of fourty medals on his chest (Big chest!)
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| He killed fifty capmen in the West,
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| He knows no rest, kind of the man, hellfire
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| Don’t push, don’t shove, plenty of room for you and me He’s got an arm like a leg,
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| And a fist that would sink a battle ship (Big ship!)
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| Takes all the Army and the Navy
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| To put the wind up Sylvest
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| He thought he’d take a trip to Italy
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| He thought that he’d go by sea,
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| He dived off the harbor at New York
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| And he swam like a man from cork
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| He saw the Lusitania in distress (What did he do?)
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| Put the big ship Lusitania on his chest (Big chest!)
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| He drank all the water in the sea
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| And he walked all the way to Italy.
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| Repeat Chorus
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| He thought he’d take a trip to old Japan.
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| They brought out the whole brass band.
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| He played every instrument they got
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| what a lad he played the whole lot.
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| The old church bell will ring (will ring)
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| The old Church choir did sing. |
| (will sing)
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| They all turned out to wish him best
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| My big brother, Sylvest.
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| Repeat Chorus
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| Yeah, thats my brother Sylvest
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| He’s got a row of fourty medals on his chest (Big chest!)
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| He killed fifty capmen in the West,
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| He knows no rest, kind of the man, hellfire
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| Don’t push, don’t shove, plenty of room for you and me |