[Crowd]
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Hurrah! Hurroo!
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There'll be an execution.
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It serves him right.
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The law makes retribution.
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There's going to be a killing.
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Hurrah! Hurroo!
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[Citizen]
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It serves him right.
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Hurrah! Hurroo!
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What did he do?
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[Policeman]
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He came from Syracuse.
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[Crowd]
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No! No! No!
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[Policeman]
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Yes! Yes! Yes!
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So let him plead,
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For what's the use?
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The sap's from Syracuse!
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[Crowd]
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The sap's from Syracuse!
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[Policeman]
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Sh! Listen!
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Yes-he dies!
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[Crowd]
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Good! That's one down!
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[Policeman]
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He dies tomorrow at sundown.
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Our rigid laws of Ephesus
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Most rightfully refuse
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A visa to any citizen
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Of uncivilized Syracuse.
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If any one of us would dare to go
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To that barbaric city.
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He'd get the ax the same as he-
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That's why he gets no pity.
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[Crowd]
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Give him the ax, the ax, the ax-
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Give him the ax, the ax-
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[Policeman]
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Unless he can pay a thousand marks,
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Or borrow it from the local sharks.
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[Duke]
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Why did you come here?
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[Aegean]
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I had twins.
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[Crowd]
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He had twins.
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That's nothing much agin him.
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He had twins.
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[Policeman]
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I never thought he had it in him.
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[Crowd]
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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[Policeman]
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Is that why you came here?
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[Aegean]
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I had twins who looked alike,
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Couldn't tell one from the other.
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They had two slaves who looked alike,
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Couldn't tell one from his brother.
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But on one unlucky day.
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We went sailing on the sea.
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This was an unlucky blunder,
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For our ship was torn asunder
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Just like that!
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Just like that!
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Just
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Like
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That!
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See?
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One young twin went down with me,
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One went swimming with his mother.
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We were parted by the sea,
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Man and wife and slave and brother.
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Now my one remaining brave boy
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Went a-searching with his slave boy.
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Having lost my son
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And wife, too-
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I will gladly give my life, too-
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Just like that!
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Just like that!
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Just
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Like
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That!
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See?
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I have searched the isles of Greece
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]From my home to far-off Samos.
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Didn't know your local laws.
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I am just an lgnoramus.
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I am sinless!
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I am twinless!
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I am wifeless!
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I am lifeless!
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I
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Am
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Glad
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To
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Die!
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He had twins,
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For them he'd give his life.
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He had twins,
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To say nothing of his wife.
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[Crowd]
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Hurrah! Hurroo!
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There'll be an execution.
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It serves him right.
|
The law makes retribution.
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There's going to be a killing.
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Hurrah! Hurroo!
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What did he do?
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He came from Syracuse.
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Yes! Yes! Yes!
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Yes! Yes! Yes!
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Yes! Yes! Yes!
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I Had Twins (He Had Twins)
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| Ray Charles |
