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I'se a led that's no easily humm'd, unless is be when I'se in drink sirs: And somehow, I do'nt know which way, but the folk us in town be so droll sirs, That I must ha' been drunk every day, For they kummid me by gum one and all sit Rum ti, &c.

I wur ganging one night by the play, never heeding about it a pin sir, When I fairly wur carried away off my legs, by the crowd getting in sirs. I shouted as loud as I could, and I told 'em I warn't o their party, But a lady insisted I should, [ty and said, 'Push on, keep moving my hear Rum ti, &c.

'Heave a head,' says a sailor, 'you lubbard; no odds, about my being willing, So I com'd to a man in a cupboard, who bade me lug out my two shillings 'And while I wur gropping about, my money to find I declare sirs; My pockets I found inside out, and the devil a penny wur there sirs. Rum ti, &c.

The crowd which before had so push'd thinks I, dang ye push on now or never, For I did sot mind now being crush'd, and I got in for nothing quite clever.