Lilliburlero

Ho! brother Teague, d'ye hear de decree?

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Dat we shall have a new deputie,

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Lero, lero, lilliburlero,

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Lero, lero, lilliburlero,

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Ho! by my soul it is de Talbot,

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And he will cut all de English throat.

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And de good Talbot is made a lord

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And with brave lads is coming aboard,

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Who in all France have taken a sware,

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Dat they will have no Protestant heir

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Now, now de hereticks all shall go down

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Chreish and St. Patrick de nation's our own.

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Dere was an old prophecy found in a bog

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Ireland shall be ruled by an ass and a dog,

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And now dis prophecy is come to pass

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Talbot's de dog and James is de ass,

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