Oh, dont the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isnt your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at.
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It's a song of a merry man, moping mum, whose soul was sad, and whose glance was glum, who sipped no sup, and who craved no crumb, as he sighed for the love of a lady.William Schwenck Gilbert
When I was a lad I served a term As office boy to an Attorneys firm. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, And I polished up the handle of the big front door. I polished up that handle so carefullee That now I am the Ruler of the Queens Navee .... Stick close to your desks and never go to sea, And you all may be Rulers of the Queens Navee.
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Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy We're very wide awake The Moon and I.
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I've got a little list of society offenders who might well be underground and who never would be missed.
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As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta 'H. M. S. Pinafore,' in the words of W. S. Gilbert 'Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.'
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When every one is somebody, Then no one's anybody!
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