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Well, me name is Dick Darby, I’m a cobbler
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I’ve spent me time at Old Camp
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They call me an old agitator
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But now I’m resolved to repent
With me ring-thing of an ing-thing of an ayday
With me ring-thing of an ing-thing an ayday
With me ro-bo-bo, ro-bo-bo randy
And me lap-stone keeps beatin’ away
It’s forty long years I have wandered
All by the contents of me pack
Me hammers, me awls and me pinchers
I carry them all on my back
My father was hung for sheep steelin’
Me mother was burned for a witch
Me sister’s a lousy house-keeper
And I’m a ... mechanical switch
Me wife, she is humpy, she’s lumpy
Me wife, she’s the Devil, she’s slack
And no matter what I might do with her
Her tongue it goes clickety-clack
Well it’s early one morning last spring time
A little before it was day
I dunked her three times in the river
And carelessly bade her “good day”