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    "text": "O it’s I that am the captain of a tidy little ship,",
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    "text": "Of a ship that goes a-sailing on the pond;",
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    "text": "And my ship it keeps a-turning all around and all about;",
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    "text": "But when I’m a little older, I shall find the secret out",
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    "text": "How to send my vessel sailing on beyond.",
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    "text": "For I mean to grow as little as the dolly at the helm,",
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    "text": "And the dolly I intend to come alive;",
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    "text": "And with him beside to help me, it’s a-sailing I shall go,",
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    "text": "It’s a-sailing on the water, when the jolly breezes blow",
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    "text": "And the vessel goes a divie-divie-dive.",
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    "text": "O it’s then you’ll see me sailing through the rushes and the reeds,",
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    "text": "And you’ll hear the water singing at the prow;",
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    "text": "For beside the dolly sailor, I’m to voyage and explore,",
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    "text": "To land upon the island where no dolly was before,",
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    "text": "And to fire the penny cannon in the bow.",
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