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ER 'er sweet sake I've gone an' chucked it clean:

The pubs an' schools an' all that leery game.
Fer when a bloke 'as come to know Doreen,
It ain't the same.
There's 'igher things, she sez, fer blokes to do.
An' I am 'arf believin' that it's true.

—THE SENTIMENTAL BLOKE