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Of all the days that's in the week
I dearly love but one day,
And that's the day that comes betwixt
A Saturday and Monday.


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As an actor does his part,
So the nurses get by heart
Namby-pamby's little rhymes,
Little jingle, little chimes.


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His cogitative faculties immersed
In cogibundity of cogitation.


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Of all the girls that are so smart
There's none like pretty Sally,
She is the darling of my heart,
And she lives in our alley.


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Let the singing singers
With vocal voices, most vociferous,
In sweet vociferation out-vociferize
Even sound itself.


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Aldeborontiphoscophornio!
Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?


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Genteel in personage,
Conduct, and equipage;
Noble by heritage,
Generous and free.


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God save our gracious king!
Long live our noble king!
God save the king!


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Let your little verses flow
Gently, sweetly, row by row;
Let the verse the subject fit,
Little subject, little wit.


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Go call a coach, and let a coach be called;
And let the man who calleth be the caller;
And in his calling let him nothing call
But Coach! Coach! Coach! Oh for a coach, ye gods!


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To thee, and gentle Rigdom Funnidos,
Our gratulations flow in streams unbounded.


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Henry Carey

Henry Carey

Born: August 27, 1687
Died: October 5, 1743 (aged 56)
Bio: Henry Carey was an English poet, dramatist and song-writer. He is remembered as an anti-Walpolean satirist and also as a patriot. Several of his melodies continue to be sung today, and he was widely praised in the generation after his death.

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