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'Tis the tale of Simon Steven, braceman at the / Odd-and-Even, / At The Nations, in the gully. They were sinking in / the rock. / Sim was small and wiry rather, and a husband and a / father, / But he's gone and left his family as a consequence / of shock.
Shock was Sim's disease, we reckoned, for it took / him in a second, / And no doctor born could dognose what the / symptoms were, I think, / But we're missin' Sim completely -- he could play / the whistle sweetly, / And was always very sociable and brotherly in / drink.