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    "text": "The jolly English Yellowboy",
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   {
    "text": "Is a ’ansome coin when new,",
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   {
    "text": "The Yankee Double-eagle",
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   {
    "text": "Is large enough for two.",
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   {
    "text": "O, these may do for seaport towns,",
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   {
    "text": "For cities these may do;",
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   {
    "text": "But the dibbs that takes the Hislands",
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   {
    "text": "Are the dollars of Peru:",
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    "text": "O, the fine Pacific Hislands,",
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    "text": "O, the dollars of Peru!",
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    "text": "It’s there we buy the coconuts",
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    "text": "Mast ’eaded in the blue;",
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    "text": "It’s there we trap the lasses",
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    "text": "All waiting for the crew;",
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    "text": "It’s there we buy the trader’s rum",
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    "text": "What bores a seaman through.⁠ ⁠…",
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    "text": "In the fine Pacific Hislands",
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    "text": "With the dollars of Peru:",
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    "text": "In the fine Pacific Hislands",
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    "text": "With the dollars of Peru!",
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    "text": "Now, messmates, when my watch is up,",
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   {
    "text": "And I am quite broached to,",
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   {
    "text": "I’ll give a tip to ’Evving",
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    "text": "Of the ’ansome thing to do:",
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    "text": "Let ’em just refit this sailor-man",
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    "text": "And launch him off anew",
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    "text": "To cruise among the Hislands",
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    "text": "With the dollars of Peru:",
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    "text": "In the fine Pacific Hislands",
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    "text": "With the dollars of Peru!",
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