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ROBINSON CRUSOE.
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WHEN I was a lad, I got cause to be sad,
My grandmother I did lose, O;
I'll bet you a can, you have heard of the man,
His name it was Robinson Crusoe.
O Robinson Crusoe!
O Robinson Crusoe!
Tink a tink tang, tink a tink tang,
O poor Robinson Crusoe!

Perhaps you’ve read in a book of a voyage he took,
And how the whirlwind blew, so,
That the ship, with a shock, drove plump on a rock
Near drowning poor Robinson Crusoe
O poor Robinson &c.

Poor soul! none but he remain’d on the sea,
Ah, Fate! Fate, how could you do so?
Till ashore he was thrown on an island unknown;
O poor Robinson Crusoe!
O poor Robinson, &c.

He wanted to eat, and he sought for some meat,
But the cattle away from him flew, so,
⟨That⟩, but for his gun, he’d been surely undone;
⟨O!⟩ my poor Robinson Crusoe!
O poor Robinson, &c.