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T:Good Old Brummagem
T:I Can't Find Brummagem
Z:Webmaster
C:James Dobbs (1781-1837)
N:Local
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w:Full twen-ty years and more are passed Since I left Brum-ma-gem. But
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w:I set out for home at last To good old Brum-ma-gem, But
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w:ev-'ry place is al-tered so Now there's hardl-y a place I know Which
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w:fills my heart with grief and woe For I can't find Brum-ma-gem.
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W:Full twenty years and more are passed
W:Since I left Brummagem.
W:But I set out for home at last
W:To good old Brummagem.
W:But ev'ry place is altered so
W:Now there's hardly a place I know
W:Which fills my heart with grief and woe
W:For I can't find Brummagem.
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W:As I was walking down the street
W:As used to be in Brummagem,
W:I knowed nobody I did meet
W:For they've changed their face in Brummagem
W:Poor old Spiceal Street's half gone,
W:And Old Church stands alone
W:And poor old I stands here to groan
W:For I can't find Brummagem.
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W:But amongst the changes we have got
W:In good old Brummagem
W:They've made a market on the moat
W:To sell the pigs in Brummagem.
W:But that has brought us more ill luck
W:For they've filled up Pudding Brook,
W:Where in the brook jack-bannils took
W:Near Good old Brummagem.
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W:But what's more melancholy still,
W:For poor old Brummagem,
W:They've taken away all Newhall-Hill
W:From poor old Brummagem,
W:At Easter time girls fair and brown,
W:Came rolly-polly down,
W:And showed their legs to half the town,
W:Oh! the good old sights in Brummagem.
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W:Down Peck Lane I walked along,
W:To find out Brummagem,
W:There was the dungil down and gone
W:What? no rogues in Brummagem,
W:They've ta'en it to a street called Moor,
W:A sign that rogues ain't fewer,
W:But rogues won't like it there I'm sure,
W:While Peck Lane's in Brummagem.
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W:I remember one John Growse,
W:Who buckles made in Brummagem,
W:He built himself a country house,
W:To be out of the smoke of Brummagem
W:But though John's country house stands still,
W:The town has walked up hill,
W:Now he lives besidea smoky mill,
W:In the middle of Brummagem.
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W:Among the changes that abound
W:In good old Brummagem,
W:May trade and happiness be found
W:In good old Brummagem.
W:And tho' no Newhall hil we've got
W:Nor Pudding Brook nor Moat,
W:May we always have enough
W:To boil the pot in Brummagem.

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