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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=66351" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Night Before Larry Was Stretched</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The night before larry was stretched<br>Oh, the night before larry was stretched<br>Well the boys they all paid him a visit<br>A bit in their sacks too they fetched<br>For they sweated their duds till they ris it<br>For larry was always the lad<br>When a boy was condemned to the squeezer<br>Would fence all the duds that he had<br>For to help his poor friend to a sneezer--<br>-- and warm his ol gob fore he died<br>Well the boys they came crowding in fast<br>And they threw all their stools round about him<br>Six glims round his trap-case was placed<br>For he couldnt be well-waked without them<br>When one of them asked, could he die<br>Without having duly repented? <br>Said larry, thats all in me eye<br>And first by the clergy invented--<br>--for to get a fat bit for themselves<br>Oh and Ill be cut up like a pie:<br>And me nob from me body be parted.<br>Youre in the wrong box, then, says i,<br>For blast me if theyre so hard-hearted<br>A chalk on the back of your neck<br>Is all that jack catch dares to give you<br>Then mind not such trifles affect<br>Oh why should the likes of them grieve you? --<br>--and now boys, come tip us the deck.<br>Well the cards being called for they played<br>Until larry found one of them cheated<br>A point in his napper was made<br>For the boy hed been easily heated<br>Oh, hold me the hokey, you thief!<br>Ill scuttle your knob with me dodle!<br>You cheat me because Im in grief<br>Ah, but soon Ill demolish your noddle--<br>--and leave you your claret to drink<br>Then the clergy came in with his book<br>And he spoke him so smooth and so civil<br>Larry tipped him kill-sour look<br>And he pitched his big wig to the devil<br>Then sighing he threw back his head<br>For to get a sweet drop of the bottle<br>And dutiful sighing he said,<br>Oh the hempt twill be soon round me throttle--<br>--and choke me poor windpipe to death.<br>Oh then sure its the best way to die<br>Oh the dead are no better the living<br>For now when the gallows is high<br>Our journey is shorter to heaven.<br>But what harasses larry the most<br>And makes his soul poor melancholy<br>Is he thinks of the time when his ghost<br>It will come in a sheet to sweet molly--<br>--oh sure, itll kill her alive<br>So moving, these last words he spoke<br>We all vented our tears in a shower<br>For me own part I thought me heart broke<br>For to see him cut down like a flower<br>On his travels we watched him next day<br>The throttler I thought I could kill him<br>But larry not one word did say<br>Nor change did he come to king william--<br>--and then did his color grow white.<br>When he came to the old dublin chit<br>He was tucked up so neat and so pretty<br>The rumbler jugged off from his feet<br>And he died with his face to the city<br>He kicked too, but that was all pride<br>For soon you might see twas all over<br>Soon after the noose was untied<br>In darkness we waked him in clover--<br>--and sent him to take his ground sweat<br>Oh, the night before larry was stretched<br>Well the boys they all paid him a visit<br>A bit in their sacks too they fetched<br>For they sweated their duds till they ris it<br>For larry was always the lad<br>When a boy was condemned to the squeezer<br>Would fence all the duds that he had<br>For to help his poor friend to a sneezer--<br>--and warm his ol gob fore he died<br>--and warm his ol gob fore he died</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />song performed by by Elvis Costello - <i><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/" target=_blank></a></i><div class=q>
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Oh, the night before larry was stretched
Well the boys they all paid him a visit
A bit in their sacks too they fetched
For they sweated their duds till they ris it
For larry was always the lad
When a boy was co..."></div>
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