Rigs Of The Time / Songs and Lyrics

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w:Here's * to - the ba-ker I must bring him in
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w:in Char-ges tup-pence a loaf and - he'll think it no 
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w:sin When he do bring it in it's no bigger than your
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w:fist And the top of the loaf is popped off with the yeast
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w:yeast. Sing-ing hon-es-ty's all out of fash-ion
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w:* These are the rigs of the times, times me
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w:boys These are the rigs of the times
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W:Here's to the baker I must bring him in
W:Charges tuppence a loaf and he'll think it no sin
W:When he do bring it in it's no bigger than your fist
W:And the top of the loaf is popped off with the yeast
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W:ch
W:Singing honesty's all out of fashion
W:These are the rigs of the times, times me boys
W:These are the rigs of the times
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W:2
W:Here's to the butcher I must bring him in
W:He charges fourpence a pound and he'll think it no sin
W:Slaps his thumb on the scale-weight to make it go down
W:He swears it's good weight when it lack half a pound
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W:So here's to the tailor who skimps on our clothes
W:And here's to the shoemaker who pinches our toes
W:Our bellies go empty our backsides go bare
W:It's no wonder we've reason to curse and to swear
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W:Now the very best thing that I could find
W:Is to toss them all up in a high gale of wind
W:When the wind it do blow and the balloon it do burst
W:And the biggest old rascal come tumbling down first

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