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I have come to tell you of the glorious news you'll all be / glad to bear, / Of the pleasant alterations that are taking place this year. / So kindly pay attention, and I'll pass the whisper round, / The squatters of their own free will this year will pay the / pound.
For this is a year of great prosperity, that everybody knows, / We'll take no top knots off this year, nor trim them to the / toes, / But a level cut for a level pound, and the rations thrown / in free. / That's how the squatters say they'll keep their Sovereign's / Jubilee.