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| THERE were three sailors of Bristol City | |
| Who took a boat and went to sea, | |
| But first with beef and captain’s biscuits | |
| And pickled pork they loaded she. | |
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| There was gorging Jack, and guzzling Jimmy, | 5 |
| And the youngster he was little Billee; | |
| Now when they ’d got as far as the Equator, | |
| They ’d nothing left but one split pea. | |
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| Says gorging Jack to guzzling Jimmy, | |
| “I am extremely hungaree.” | 10 |
| To gorging Jack says guzzling Jimmy, | |
| “We ’ve nothing left, us must eat we.” | |
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| Says gorging Jack to guzzling Jimmy, | |
| “With one another we shouldn’t agree! | |
| There ’s little Bill, he ’s young and tender, | 15 |
| We ’re old and tough, so let ’s eat he.” | |
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| “O Billy! we ’re going to kill and eat you, | |
| So undo the button of your chemie.” | |
| When Bill received this information, | |
| He used his pocket-handkerchie. | 20 |
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| “First let me say my catechism | |
| Which my poor mother taught to me.” | |
| “Make haste! make haste!” says guzzling Jimmy, | |
| While Jack pulled out his snickersnee. | |
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| Billy went up to the main-top-gallant mast, | 25 |
| And down he fell on his bended knee, | |
| He scarce had come to the Twelfth Commandment | |
| When up he jumps—“There ’s land I see! | |
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| “Jerusalem and Madagascar | |
| And North and South Amerikee, | 30 |
| There ’s the British flag a-riding at anchor, | |
| With Admiral Napier, K. C. B.” | |
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| So when they got aboard of the Admiral’s, | |
| He hanged fat Jack and flogged Jimmee, | |
| But as for little Bill he made him | 35 |
| The Captain of a Seventy-three. | |
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