| 1 | When my mother died I was very young, | 1 | When my mother died I was very young, |
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| 2 | And my father sold me while yet my tongue, | 2 | And my father sold me while yet my tongue |
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| 3 | Could scarcely cry“weep weep weep weep”. | 3 | Could scarcely cry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!" |
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| 4 | So your chimneys I sweepand in soot I sleep, | 4 | So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep. |
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| 5 | Theres little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head | 5 | |
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| 6 | That curl'd like a lambs back, was shav'd, so I said. | 6 | There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head |
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| 7 | Hush Tom never mind it, for when your head's bare, | 7 | That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved, so I said, |
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| 8 | “You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.” | 8 | "Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare, |
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| 9 | And so he was quiet, and that very night, | 9 | You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair." |
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| 10 | As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight, | 10 | |
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| 11 | That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Nedand Jack | 11 | And so he was quiet, & that very night, |
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| 12 | Were all of them lock'd up in coffins of black, | 12 | As Tom was a-sleeping he had such a sight! |
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| 13 | And by came an Angel who had a bright key, | 13 | That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack, |
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| 14 | And he open'd the coffinsand set them all free. | 14 | Were all of them locked up in coffins of black; |
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| 15 | Then down a green plain leaping laughing they run | 15 | |
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| | 16 | And by came an Angel who had a bright key, |
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| | 17 | And he opened the coffins & set them all free; |
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| | 18 | Then down a green plain, leaping, laughing they run, |
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| 19 | And the Angel told Tom if he'd be a good boy, | 23 | And the Angel told Tom, if he'd be a good boy, |
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| 20 | He'd have God for his fatherand never want joy. | 24 | He'd have God for his father & never want joy. |
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| 21 | And so Tom awoke and we rose in the dark | 25 | |
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| 22 | And got with our bags and our brushes to work. | 26 | And so Tom awoke; and we rose in the dark |
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| 23 | Tho'the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm, | 27 | And got with our bags & our brushes to work. |
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| | 28 | Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy & warm; |
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