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    "text": "I reckon that ye never knew,",
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    "text": "That dandy slugger, Tom Carew.",
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    "text": "O, what a Sunday-school it was",
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    "text": "To watch him puttin’ up his paws",
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    "text": "An’ roominate upon their heft⁠—",
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    "text": "Tom was my style⁠—that’s all I say;",
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    "text": "What’s come of him? Dunno, I’m sure;",
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    "text": "He’s dead⁠—which make his fate obscure.",
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    "text": "I only started in to clear",
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    "text": "One vital p’int in his career,",
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    "text": "Which is to say⁠—afore he died",
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    "text": "He soiled his erming mighty snide.",
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    "text": "Ye see he took to politics",
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    "text": "Pulled wires, wore stovepipe hats, used scent,",
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    "text": "Just like he was the President;",
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    "text": "Went to the Legislater; spoke",
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    "text": "Right out agin the British yoke⁠—",
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    "text": "But that was right. He let his hair",
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    "text": "Grow long to qualify for Mayor,",
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    "text": "An’ once or twice he poked his snoot",
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    "text": "It had to come⁠—no gent can hope",
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    "text": "To wrastle God agin the rope.",
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    "text": "Tom went from bad to wuss. Being dead,",
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    "text": "I s’pose it oughtn’t to be said,",
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    "text": "For sech inikities as flow",
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    "text": "From politics ain’t fit to know.",
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    "text": "But, if you think it’s actin’ white",
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    "text": "To tell it⁠—Thomas throwed a fight!",
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