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Now the swan it floated |
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On the english river |
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Ah the rose of high romance |
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It opened wide |
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A sun tanned woman yearned me |
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Through the summer |
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And the judges watched us |
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From the other side |
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I told my mother mother |
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I must leave you |
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Preserve my room |
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But do not shed a tear |
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Should rumour of a shabby |
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Ending reach you |
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It was half my fault |
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And half the atmosphere |
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But the rose I sickened |
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With a scarlet fever |
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And the swan I tempted |
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With a sense of shame |
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She said at last |
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I was her finest lover |
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And if she withered |
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I would be to blame |
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The judges said you missed it |
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By a fraction |
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Rise up and brace |
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Your troops for the attack |
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Ah the dreamers ride |
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Against the men of action |
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Oh see the men of action |
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Falling back |
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But I lingered on her thighs |
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A fatal moment |
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I kissed her lips |
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As though I thirsted still |
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My falsity had stung me |
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Like a hornet |
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The poison sank |
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And it paralysed my will |
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I could not move to warn |
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All the younger soldiers |
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That they had been |
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Deserted from above |
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So on battlefields |
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From here to barcelona |
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I'm listed with the enemies of love |
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And long ago she said |
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I must be leaving |
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Ah but keep my body here to lie upon |
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You can move it up |
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And down and when I'm sleeping |
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Run some wire through |
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That rose and wind the swan |
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So daily I renew my idle duty |
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I touch her here and there |
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I know my place |
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I kiss her open mouth |
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And I praise her beauty |
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And people call me traitor to my face |