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1. An old Jane about 49 came in to view the town,
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she registered up at Smith's Hotel as Miss Ada Brown.
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She said she was just 25 and that she was in love
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with a young lad about 16, she called him her turtledove.
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The wedding day at last arrived, the birds did merrily sing,
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he touched her up for a hundred to go out and buy the ring.
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He never came back, no, he never came back
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he's been gone for a year or more.
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That sassy young thing better have that ring,
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when we meet on that beautiful shore.
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2. I went down to a restaurant as hungry as a bear,
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and like a raving thief I did, I grabbed the bill of fare.
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The waiter said, Now what for you?” “A piece of steak !” I said,
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he’d taken my order and bowed his head and slowly walked away.
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No, he never came back, no, he never came back,
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I waited an hour or more.
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His neck I will break, if he has not that steak
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when we meet on that beautiful shore