(M-day's child is fair of face)
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(Drill-day's child is full of grace)
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M-day's child is fair of face,
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Drill-day's child is full of grace,
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Gun-day's child is breastless and blind,
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Shell-day's child is out of its mind,
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Lucy picked a fight with a bumblebee,
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The bumblebee it went and told the crow,
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The crow it settled down in the old gum tree,
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Sharpened all the arrows for its bow,
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Flew across the town to the school house yard,
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Spotted little Lucy heading home,
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Shot her through the backpack and through the heart,
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Maybe that'll teach her, I don't know.
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Bomb-day's child will always be dumb,
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Cannon-day's child can never quite come,
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But the child that's born on Battle-day is blithe and bonny and rotted away.
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Gunday's Child
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| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum |
