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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408712" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Peddling Round the World</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When at first in foreign parts<br>Was her flag unfurled,<br>England was a Gipsy lass<br>Peddling round the world.<br>Sailing on the Spanish Main—<br>Everywhere you roam—<br>Peddling in the Persian Gulf<br>Things she’d made at home.<br>Peddling round the world,<br>Peddling round the world—<br>England was a Gipsy lass<br>Peddling round the world. <br>England never wanted war,<br>Not on land or sea—<br>Other nations rising up<br>Couldn’t let her be.<br>England only wanted peace,<br>And the ocean’s breath;<br>So there came, in course of time,<br>Queen Elizabeth.<br>Queen Elizabeth—<br>Queen Elizabeth—<br>Came a plain, bad-tempered queen,<br>Called Elizabeth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Queen Elizabeth, she called<br>Drake, and Raleigh too—<br>Essex, Howard, and the rest<br>Of the pirate crew;<br>“See what you can do,” she said.<br>“England’s feeling sick—<br>If you don’t, I’ll hang you all!<br>Better do it quick.”<br>“Better do it quick,” she said—<br>“Better do it quick”;<br>And they knew she’d keep her word,<br>So they did it quick. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Drake and Raleigh sailed away—<br>(Only Bess they feared)<br>Cleared the Spanish Main and singed<br>The King of Spain his beard—<br>Singed the King of Spain his beard,<br>And his hair they curled.<br>England was a Gipsy’s love<br>Peddling round the world.<br>Peddling round the world,<br>Peddling round the world.<br>England was a Gipsy’s love<br>Peddling round the world. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once again, when Cromwell came,<br>England wanted room;<br>So he lowered Holland’s tone,<br>Smashed the Dutchman’s broom.<br>Sent a message to Algiers;<br>Made its meaning plain—<br>On the way they called once more<br>On the King of Spain.<br>On the King of Spain—<br>On the King of Spain:<br>Called, to jog his memory,<br>On the King of Spain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the years went round and round,<br>Over hills and flats—<br>England was a Gipsy wife—<br>England had her brats;<br>Peddling in the China Sea,<br>Far from English ground;<br>Doing biz with Mrs. Jap—<br>Peddling all around.<br>Peddling all around—<br>Peddling all around;<br>Making friends with Mrs. Jap—<br>Peddling all around. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>When the war is past and gone,<br>With its blood and tears;<br>And the world may count upon<br>Peace for fifty years—<br>When the gory battle-flags<br>Round their sticks are furled—<br>Then you’ll see a Gipsy crone<br>Peddling round the world.<br>Peddling round the world—<br>Peddling round the world.<br>Then you’ll see a Gipsy crone<br>A-peddling round the world! <br>Shawl as old as Joseph’s coat,<br>Hair as white as snow,<br>Mind as bright as Seventeen—<br>Eyes still like the sloe—<br>Peddling in the Southern Seas—<br>Everywhere you roam—<br>And she’ll fill her baskets here<br>With things we’ll make at home.<br>Things we’ll make at home—<br>Things we’ll make at home—<br>Call to fill her baskets here<br>With things we’ll make at HOME.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</a><div class=q>
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Was her flag unfurled,
England was a Gipsy lass
Peddling round the world.
Sailing on the Spanish Main—
Everywhere you roam—
Peddling in the Persian Gulf
Things she’d made at home.
Peddling round the world,
Pedd..."></div>
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