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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344193" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When Dacey rode the Mule</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">’TWAS to a small, up-country town, <br> When we were boys at school, <br>There came a circus with a clown, <br> Likewise a bucking mule. <br>The clown announced a scheme they had <br> Spectators for to bring— <br>They’d give a crown to any lad <br> Who’d ride him round the ring. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, gentle reader, do not scoff <br> Nor think a man a fool— <br>To buck a porous-plaster off <br> Was pastime to that mule. <br>The boys got on he bucked like sin; <br> He threw them in the dirt. <br>What time the clown would raise a grin <br> By asking, “Are you hurt?” <br>But Johnny Dacey came one night, <br> The crack of all the school; <br>Said he, “I’ll win the crown all right; <br> Bring in your bucking mule.” </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The elephant went off his trunk, <br> The monkey played the fool, <br>And all the band got blazing drunk <br> When Dacey rode the mule. <br>But soon there rose a galling shout <br> Of laughter, for the clown <br>From somewhere in his pants drew out <br> A little paper crown. <br>He placed the crown on Dacey’s head <br> While Dacey looked a fool; <br>“Now, there’s your crown, my lad,” he said, <br> “For riding of the mule!” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The band struck up with “Killaloe”, <br> And “Rule Britannia, Rule”, <br>And “Young Man from the Country”, too, <br> When Dacey rode the mule. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Dacey, in a furious rage, <br> For vengeance on the show <br>Ascended to the monkeys’ cage <br> And let the monkeys go; <br>The blue-tailed ape and the chimpanzee <br> He turned abroad to roam; <br>Good faith! It was a sight to see <br> The people step for home. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>For big baboons with canine snout <br> Are spiteful, as a rule— <br>The people didn’t sit it out, <br> When Dacey rode the mule. <br>And from the beasts he let escape, <br> The bushmen all declare, <br>Were born some creatures partly ape <br> And partly native-bear. <br>They’re rather few and far between, <br> The race is nearly spent; <br>But some of them may still be seen <br> In Sydney Parliament. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And when those legislators fight, <br> And drink, and act the fool, <br>Just blame it on that torrid night <br> When Dacey rode the mule. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A.B. (Banjo) Pasterson</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Barton+Paterson">Andrew Barton Paterson</a><div class=q>
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 When we were boys at school, 
There came a circus with a clown, 
 Likewise a bucking mule. 
The clown announced a scheme they had 
 Spectators for to bring— 
They’d give a crown to any lad 
 Who’d ride ..."></div>
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