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قراءة كتاب Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs

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Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs

Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs

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  • The Tangled Skein
  • Girl Graduates
  • The Ape and the Lady
  • Sans Souci
  • The British Tar
  • The Coming Bye and Bye
  • The Sorcerer's Song
  • Speculation
  • The Duke Of Plaza-Toro
  • The Reward Of Merit
  • When I First Put This Uniform On
  • Said I To Myself, Said I
  • The Family Fool
  • The Philosophic Pill
  • The Contemplative Sentry
  • Sorry Her Lot
  • The Judge's Song
  • True Diffidence
  • The Highly Respectable Gondolier
  • Don't Forget
  • The Darned Mounseer
  • The Humane Mikado
  • The House of Peers
  • The Æsthete
  • Proper Pride
  • The Baffled Grumbler
  • The Working Monarch
  • The Rover's Apology
  • Would You Know
  • The Magnet And The Churn
  • Braid The Raven Hair
  • Is Life A Boon?
  • A Mirage
  • A Merry Madrigal
  • The Love-Sick Boy

  • THE BAB BALLADS.


    THE YARN OF THE "NANCY BELL."

    'Twas on the shores that round our coast
    From Deal to Ramsgate span,
    That I found alone, on a piece of stone,
    An elderly naval man.
    His hair was weedy, his beard was long,
    And weedy and long was he,
    And I heard this wight on the shore recite,
    In a singular minor key:
    "Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold,
    And the mate of the Nancy brig,
    And a bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite,
    And the crew of the captain's gig."
    And he shook his fists and he tore his hair.
    Till I really felt afraid;
    For I couldn't help thinking the man had been drinking,
    And so I simply said:
    "Oh, elderly man it's little I know
    Of the duties of men of the

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