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T:The Crocodile
B:Singing Together, Summer 1979, BBC Publications
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
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w:Come lands-men list you all to me to tell you the truth I'm bound, *
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w:What hap-pened to me by go-ing to sea and the won-ders that I found.  *
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w:Ship-wrecked I was once per-force, and cast up-on the shore *
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w:So I res-olved to make a tour the count-ry to ex-plore. *
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w: Tol-lol, tol-lol, lit-tle-tol-lol, lol, The won-der-ful croc-o-dile *
W:Come landsmen list you all to me to tell you the truth I'm bound,
W:What happened to me by going to sea and the wonders that I found.
W:Ship-wrecked I was once perforce, and cast upon the shore
W:So I resolved to make a tour the country to explore.
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W:Tol-lol, tol-lol, lit-tle-tol-lol, lol,
W:The wonderful crocodile.
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W:But far I'd not proceeded when alongside of the ocean,
W:I saw something move about which I though must be all the earth in motion,
W:But sterring up close alongside I found 'twas a crocodile,
W:And from his nose to the tip of his tail he measured five hundred miles.
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W:This crocodile I could plainly see was not of a common race,
W:I was obliged to climb up a very high tree before I could see his face,
W:Whilst up aloft the stem so high it blew a gale from the South,
W:I lost my hold and away did fly right into the crocodile's mouth.
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W:I travelled on for a month or two till I got into his maw,
W:There I found of rum kegs not a few and a thousand bullocks in store,
W:Of life I banished all my care, for in grub I was not stinted,
W:And in this crocodile I lived ten years very well contented.
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W:This crocodile being very old, one day at last he died,
W:But he was three years getting cold he was so long and wide,
W:His skin was ten miles thick I'm sure, or very near about,
W:For it took me full six months or more cutting a hole to get out.
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W:So now once more I'd got on earth resolved no more to roam,
W:In a ship that passed I got a berth and now I'm safe at home,
W:And lest my story you should doubt, should you ever travel the Nile,
W:Just where he fell you'll find the shell of the wonderful crocodile.
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