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I looked to the east, I looked to the west |
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I saw John Ball a coming a calling |
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With four blind horses riding in the clouds |
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To look on the other side of Jordan |
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Pull of your old coat and roll up your sleeves |
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Jordan is a hard road to travel I believe |
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Thunders in the clouds, lighting in the trees |
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What do you think that I told him? |
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It's goodbye son 'til the next kingdom come |
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And I'll meet you on the other side of Jordan |
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The ladies of England have made a big address |
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About slavery and hardships according |
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They better look at home to their own white slaves |
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They're starving on the English side of Jordan |
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There were snakes in Ireland not many years ago |
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St Patrick saw the vermin all a crawling |
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But with his shillelagh he hit them on the head |
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And he drove them 'cross the other side of Jordan |
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And Jonah spent three days in the belly of a whale |
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Three days and two nights then according |
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He tickled him with a straw which caused him to laugh |
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And he chucked him on the other side of Jordan |
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