| «Me loyal subjects"sez she,
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| «Here's me best respects"sez she,
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| «And I’m proud this day"sez she,
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| «Of the elegant way"sez she,
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| «That they gave me the hand"sez she,
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| «When I come to the land"sez she,
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| «There was some people said"sez she,
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| «They were gently in dread"sez she,
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| «I'd be murdered or shot"sez she,
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| «As like or not"sez she,
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| «But it’s mighty clear"sez she,
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| «That it’s not over here"sez she,
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| «That I have caused to fear"sez she,
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| «It"s them Belgiums"sez she,
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| «Thats throwing the bombs"sez she,
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| «And frightening the life"sez she,
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| «Out of the son and the wife"sez she,
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| «But in these parts"sez she,
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| «They have warm hearts"sez she,
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| «And they all like me well"sez she,
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| «Barring the Honour Parnell"sez she,
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| «I don’t know Earl"sez she,
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| «Whats come over the girl"sez she,
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| «And that other one"sez she,
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| «That Maude Gonne"sez she,
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| «Dressing in black"sez she,
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| «To welcome me back"sez she,
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| «Now Maude’ll write"sez she,
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| «That I’d brought the blight"sez she,
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| «Or changed the season"sez she,
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| «For me own private reason"sez she,
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| «And I think there’s a slate off that Willie Yeats"sez she,
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| «He should be at home"sez she,
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| «French polishing his poems"sez she,
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| «Instead of writing letters"sez she,
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| «About his betters"sez she,
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| «And parading me crimes"sez she,
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| «In The Irish Times"sez she,
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| «Ah, but what does it matter"sez she,
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| «All this magpie chatter"sez she,
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| «When I heard the welcoming roar"sez she,
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| «Coming up from the shore"sez she,
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| «Right over the foam"sez she,
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| «Sure it was like coming home"sez she,
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| «And me heart fairly glowed"sez she,
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| «Along the 'Rock road'"sez she,
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| «And into Butterstown"sez she,
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| «And be merrion Round"sez she,
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| «Until I come to the ridge"sez she,
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| «Of the Leeson St. Bridge"sez she,
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| «And was greeted in style by the beautiful smile of me Lord Mayor Pyle"sez she,
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| «Fate if I’d done right"sez she,
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| «I'd a made him a knight"sez she,
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| «And I needn’t repeat"sez she,
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| «How they cheered in each street"sez she,
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| «Till I come to them lads"sez she,
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| «Don't you know them undergrads"sez she,
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| «Oh, and indeed and indeed"sez she,
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| «I got many a God Speed"sez she,
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| «But nothing to compare"sez she,
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| «With what I got here"sez she,
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| «So pass the jug"sez she,
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| «And I’ll fill each mug"sez she,
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| «And I’ll give you a toast"sez she,
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| «At which you may boast"sez she,
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| «Now I’ve a power of sons"sez she,
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| «All sorts of ones"sez she,
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| «Some as quiet as cows"sez she,
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| «Some always in rows"sez she,
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| «And the one that causes the most trouble"sez she,
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| «Sure the mother loves double"sez she,
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| «So here’s to the men"sez she,
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| «That's gone into win"sez she,
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| «That's clearing the way"sez she,
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| «To Petoria today"sez she,
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| «In the gap of danger"sez she,
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| «There's a Connaught Ranger"sez she,
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| «And a fusilier not far"sez she,
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| «From the heart of the war"sez she,
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| «And they may talk a lot"sez she,
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| «And them foreign baboons"sez she,
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| «May draw their cartoons"sez she,
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| «But there’s one thing they’ll never draw"sez she,
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| «And that’s the lions claw"sez she,
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| «For before our flag is furled"sez she,
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| «We'll own the world"sez she. |