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Come fill up your glasses
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and set yourselves down.
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I'll tell you a story of somebody's town.
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It isn't too near and
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it's not far away.
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It's not a place where I'd
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want to stay.
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Now the people are scratching
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all over the street
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Because the rabbits
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had nothing to eat.
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came in with a cold icy blast.
It killed off the flowers and
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killed off the grass.
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The rabbits were starving
because of the freeze.
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They started eating the bark off the trees.
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Verse 4
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The farmers said,
"This sort of thing just won't do.
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Our trees will be dead when the
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rabbits get through.
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We'll have to poison the rabbits,
it's clear;
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Or we'll have no crops to harvest next
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year."
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Verse 5
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[Chorus]
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So they brought the poison
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and spread it around.
And soon dead rabbits
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began to be found.
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Dogs ate the rabbits and
the farmers just said,
"We'll poison those rabbits 'til the last
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dog is dead."
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Verse 6
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Up in the sky there were
meat- eating fowls.
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The dead rabbits poisoned
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the hawks and the owls.
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Thousands of field mice the
hawks used to chase
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Were multiplying all over the place.
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Verse 7
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The fields and the meadows
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were barren and brown.
The mice got hungry
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and moved into town.
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The city folks took the farmer's advise
And all of them started to poison
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the mice.
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Verse 8
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There were dead mice in all
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the apartments and flats.
The cats ate the mice and
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the mice killed the cats.
The smell was awful and I'm
glad to say
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I wasn't the man hired to haul them away.
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Verse 9
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All through the country and all
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through the town
There wasn't a dog or
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cat to be found.
The fleas asked each other,
"Where can we stay?"
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They've been on the people from then 'til
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this day.
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Verse 10
[Chorus] All you
small creatures that live in this land
Stay clear of the man
with the poisonous hand!
A few bails of hay might keep you alive
But he'll pay more to kill you than
let you survive.
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[Chorus]
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