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+====== The Irish Ballad ======
+===== (Rickety Tickety Tin) =====
+by Tom Lehrer
+About a maid I'll sing a song
+Sing rickety tickety tin
+About a maid I'll sing a song
+Who didn't have her family long
+Not only did she do them wrong
+She did every one of them in, them in
+She did every one of them in.
+One morning in a fit of pique
+Sing rickety tickety tin
+One morning in a fit of pique
+She drowned her father in the creek
+The water tasted bad for a week
+And we had to make do with gin, with gin
+We had to make do with gin
+Her mother she could never stand
+Sing rickety tickety tin
+Her mother she could never stand
+And so a cyanide soup she planned
+The mother died with the spoon in her hand
+And her face in a hideous grin, a grin
+He face in a hideous grin.
+She weighted her brother down with stones
+Sing rickety tickety tin
+She weighted her brother down with stones
+And sent him off to Davey Jones
+All they ever found were some bones
+And occasional pieces of skin, of skin
+Occasional pieces of skin.
+She set her sister's hair on fire
+Sing rickety tickety tin
+She set her sister's hair on fire
+And as the smoke and flame rose higher
+Danced around the funeral pyre
+Playing a violin, 'olin
+Playing a violin.
+One day she had nothing to do
+Sing rickety tickety tin
+One day she had nothing to do
+She cut her baby brother in two
+And served him up as an Irish stew
+And invited the neighbors in, 'bors in
+Invited the neighbors in.
+And when at last the police came by
+Sing rickety tickety tin
+And when at last the police came by
+Her little pranks she did not deny
+To do so she would have had to lie
+And lying she knew was a sin, a sin
+And lying she knew was a sin.
+My tragic tale I won't prolong
+Sing rickety tickety tin
+My tragic tale I won't prolong
+And if you do not like my song
+You've yourself to blame if it's too long
+You should never have let me begin, begin
+You should never have let me begin.