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A while ago it came to pass / (Merry we carol it all the day), / There sat a man on the top of an ass / (Heart be happy and carol be gay / In spite of the price of hay).
And over the down they hoofed it so / (Happy go lucky has best of fare), / The man up above and the brute below / (And singing we all forget to care / A man may laugh if he dare).
Over the stubble and round the crop / (Life is short and the world is round), / The donkey beneath and the man on top / (Oh! let good ale be found, be found, / Merry good ale and sound).
It happened again as it happened before / (Tobacco's a boon but ale is bliss), / The moke in the ditch and the man on the floor / (And that is the moral to this, to this / Remarkable artifice).