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Wot price ole Ginger Mick? 'E's done a break - / Gone to the flamin' war to stoush the foe. / Wus it fer glory, or a woman's sake? / Ar, arst me somethin' easy! I dunno. / 'Is Kharki clobber set 'im off a treat, / That's all I know; 'is motive's got me beat.
Ole Mick 'e's trainin' up in Cairo now; / An' all the cops in Spadger's Lane is sad. / They miss 'is music in the midnight row / Wot time the pushes mix it good an' glad. / Fer 'e wus one o' them, you understand, / Wot "soils the soshul life uv this fair land."