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*Whistling*

[Verse 1]
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When I was a boy, we hadn't need for much
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We always had provisions, clothes, and food and such
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I had one only brother, had him all my life
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We never took to trouble or to strife
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One evening at the table, while food was being spread
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My brother sitting next to me and father at the head
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Mother served us sweet milk and poured it in our mugs
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Brother swallowed his, and then he drank mine in a chug
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He looked at me contentеd, and then he took a bow
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Then mе and my brother had a row

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*Whistling*

[Verse 2]
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I told him he was in the wrong, he said I was misled
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He added I was insolent and had a misshaped head
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I said he was unpleasant; he said I was a louse
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And then we took to quar'ling 'round the house
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We quarreled in the celler, and we quarreled in the attic
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We quarreled in the kitchen, and we quarreled with a hattock
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I hit him in the backyard; I hit him in the front
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I hit him with an object, and the object, it was blunt
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We didn't stop to eat or drink, or even wipe a brow
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When me and my brother had a row

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*Whistling*