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Robert Robinson. A Mild Drinking Song The horrid men who live on beer , And swear in public bars , Have no digestion left except For fourpenny cigars . They stumble home at break of day , And often end their lives Beneath a lorry or a ...
Robert Robinson. A Mild Drinking Song The horrid men who live on beer , And swear in public bars , Have no digestion left except For fourpenny cigars . They stumble home at break of day , And often end their lives Beneath a lorry or a ...
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... live and swiftly die ; But sinful , ginful rum - soaked men Survive for three score years and ten . And some of them , a very few , Stay pickled till they're ninety - two . ANON The New Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens ( Old border ballad ) ...
... live and swiftly die ; But sinful , ginful rum - soaked men Survive for three score years and ten . And some of them , a very few , Stay pickled till they're ninety - two . ANON The New Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens ( Old border ballad ) ...
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... live : — Whither shall thy victims flee ? Spare us , spare us , Motor Be ! Thus I sang ; and still anigh Came in hordes Motores Bi , Et complebat omne forum Copia Motorum Borum . How shall wretches live like us Cincti Bis Motoribus ...
... live : — Whither shall thy victims flee ? Spare us , spare us , Motor Be ! Thus I sang ; and still anigh Came in hordes Motores Bi , Et complebat omne forum Copia Motorum Borum . How shall wretches live like us Cincti Bis Motoribus ...
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