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Version 1

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T:I Found An Old Stocking
C:Tony Oakshott (collector)
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w:I found an old stock-ing, and filled it with lead; 
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w:I hit an old la-dy right over the head.
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W:1
W:I found an old stocking, and filled it with lead;
W:I hit an old lady right over the head.
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W:2
W:A copper approached me and asked me my name,
W:I gave him the answer with a bicycle chain.
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W:3
W:The judge said, “Sit down, boy, and dry up your tears,
W:You’re going to Borstal for forty-five years.”
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W:4
W:My mother was crying, my sister was too;
W:My old man was laughing, and so were the screws.
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W:5
W:There were bars on the windows, and bars on the doors,
W:And, just to be awkward, there were bars on the floors.
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W:6
W:I counted the moonbeams, I counted the stars,
W:I counted ten thousand borstal bars.
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W:7
W:“Come home and behave now,” my Old Man said;
W:So I found an old stocking, and filled it with lead.

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