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Queer scenes now are all the go,

You cannot say I'm wrong;

And there is one I'd have you know,

I've worked into a song.

Go where I will-in every street,

I'm shook, Sirs, by the hand,

No matter who it is I meet,

What are you going to stand?

One morn I'd been to get some cash

From a swell at the west end;

Resolv'd I was to cut a dash,

When I met with a friend.

I told him of the errand I'd been,

When he takes me by the hand,

I’m glad to hear't. my boy, says he,

What are you going to stand?

Says I, I doesn't mind a drop

My spirits for to rouse;

So then we toddles in a shop

Near to Somerset house.

Inside a lot began to shout,

As if 't had been a plan;

It is not often we get you out,

Now what are you going to stand?

I spent, Sirs, very near a crown,

My cash was getting shorter.

For the liquor it went rolling down,

As though it had been water.