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TOMMY

I went into a public-’ouse to get a pint o’ beer,
The publican’e up an’ sez, ‘We serve no red-coats here.’
The girls be’ind the bar they laughed an’ giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an’ to myself sez I:

  O it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ ‘Tommy, go away’;
  But it’s ‘Thank you, Mister Atkins,’ when the band begins to play,
  The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
  O it’s ‘Thank you, Mister Atkins,’ when the band begins to play.

I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but ’adn’t none for me;