| Well do you get the itching to Trek about the latitudes?
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| You do?
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| Well, likely you’re a chip off old Sir Rugglesby
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| Oh, he was quite the sporting sort
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| Behind his cup of tea he’d snort,
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| I’ll wager on the line
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| Ten thousand pounds and five
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| I’m the only man who’ll ever get to hell and come back alive.
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| Act II
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| Now in the fall of '49
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| He skipped across the seven brine
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| This time looking for a berth in naval history
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| Twas never heard nor seen again
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| Officially presumed as dead
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| But the words he left behind
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| Still echo through my mind:
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| I’m the only man who’ll ever get to hell and come back alive.
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| He’s the only man who’d ever get to hell and come back alive.
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| So off he went around the world…
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| Intermission
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| Act III
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| Then one night while tripping down the English coast
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| The moon was whiter than a ghost almost
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| When I heard a voice yell through a megaphone
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| And thereupon the midnight sea
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| A signal lamp signaled me I could feel my blood run cold
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| As the message did decode:
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| I’m the only man who’ll ever get to hell and come back alive.
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| Well who else could it be But good old Rugglesby?
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| He’s the only man who’d ever get to hell and come back alive.
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| Yes he’s the only man (he's the only one)
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| Who’s ever gone and been (who's been and gone)
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| To hell and come back
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| Hell and come
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| To hell and come back alive
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| The End |