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1. Local Ballads versus Landlordism (continued)

   

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   Since Noah's Flood
   Saying in their own mind with timid kind
   He'll rob and cheat us we know full well
   But who could bate a big magistrate
   who could swear all tho devils clear out of hell
   Ora didn't he summons Paddy bommin
   Before Judge Henn I don't care a pen
   But countrymen must be put down
   A decree I'll grant is Ni'l maic az cainnc
   you all do hear me but do not laugh
   The judge did hear and Lewin did swear
   That's bullock had a heifer calf
   And so they talked and out they walked
   when'e'er tho rent they could not pay
   But new they're changed an very chang
   And they'll thrate Lewin in another way
   A coward a brute a brag they call him
   No more "Your Honour" salutes his ear
   For even the old women threaten to maul him
   And now he shakes and quakes with fear
   They say "you jumper" "you bleady thumper"
   Most manful lie you e'er let fall
   Saying I'll insist that bloody priest (from)
   Must come himself and lift my wall
   But now he's frightened and most enlightened

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