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In Trouble

1     It’s all for nothing: I’ve lost im now.
2         I suppose it ad to be:
3     But oh I never thought it of im,
4         Nor e never thought it of me.
5     And all for a kiss on your evening out
6         An a field where the grass was down...
7     And e as gone to God-knows-where,
8         And I may go on the town.
 
9     The worst of all was the thing e said
10       The night that e went away:
11   He said e’d a married me right enough
12       If I adn’t a been so gay.
13   Me, gay! When I’d cried, and I’d asked him not,
14       But e said e loved me so;
15   An whatever e wanted seemed right to me...
16       An how was a girl to know?
 
17   Well, the river is deep, and drowned folk sleep sound,
18       An it might be the best to do;
19   But when he made me a light-o-love
20       He made me a mother too.
21   I’ve ad enough sin to last my time,
22       If twas sin as I got it by,
23   But it aint no sin to stand by his kid
24       An work for it till I die.
 
25   But oh the long days and the death-long nights
26       When I feel it move and turn,
27   And cry alone in my single bed
28       And count what a girl can earn
29   To buy the baby the bits of things
30       He ought to a bought, by rights;
31   And wonder whether e thinks of Us...
32       And if e sleeps sound o’ nights.
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