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BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS
'Taught me the gipsy-folks' bolee[1];

⁠Kind o' volcano she were,
For she knifed me one night 'cause I wished she was white,
⁠And I learned about women from 'er!


Then I come 'ome in the trooper,
⁠'Long of a kid o' sixteen—
Girl from a convent at Meerut,
⁠The straightest I ever 'ave seen.
Love at first sight was 'er trouble,
⁠She didn't know what it were;
An' I wouldn't do such, 'cause I liked 'er too much,
⁠But—I learned about women from 'er!


I 've taken my fun where I've found it,
⁠An' now I must pay for my fun,
For the more you 'ave known o' the others

⁠The less will you settle to one;
  1. ↑ Slang.
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