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About a maid I'll sing a song
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Sing rickety tickety tin
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About a maid I'll sing a song
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Who didn't have her family long
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Not only did she do them wrong
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She did every one of them in, them in
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She did every one of them in.
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One morning in a fit of pique
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Sing rickety tickety tin
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One morning in a fit of pique
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She drowned her father in the creek
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The water tasted bad for a week
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And we had to make do with gin, with gin
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We had to make do with gin
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Her mother she could never stand
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Sing rickety tickety tin
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Her mother she could never stand
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And so a cyanide soup she planned
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The mother died with the spoon in her hand
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And her face in a hideous grin, a grin
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He face in a hideous grin.
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She weighted her brother down with stones
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Sing rickety tickety tin
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She weighted her brother down with stones
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And sent him off to Davey Jones
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All they ever found were some bones
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And occasional pieces of skin, of skin
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Occasional pieces of skin.
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She set her sister's hair on fire
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Sing rickety tickety tin
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She set her sister's hair on fire
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And as the smoke and flame rose higher
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Danced around the funeral pyre
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Playing a violin, olin
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Playing a violin.
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One day she had nothing to do
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Sing rickety tickety tin
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One day she had nothing to do
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She cut her baby brother in two
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And served him up as an Irish stew
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And invited the neighbors in, bors in
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Invited the neighbors in.
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And when at last the police came by
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Sing rickety tickety tin
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And when at last the police came by
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Her little pranks she did not deny
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To do so she would have had to lie
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And lying she knew was a sin, a sin
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And lying she knew was a sin.
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And just one thing before I go
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Sing rickety tickety tin
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And just one thing before I go
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There's something I think that you ought to know
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They had no proof, so they let her go
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And they say that she's tall and thin, and thin
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They say that she's tall and thin.
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My tragic tale I won't prolong
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Sing rickety tickety tin
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My tragic tale I won't prolong
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You've yourself to blame if it's too long
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You should never have let me begin, begin
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You should never have let me begin.
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Rickety Tickety Tin
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| Tom Lehrer |
