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1. Old Adam was a poacher, / Went out one day at Fall, / To catch a hare for roasting / And eating bones and all, / In the sun / Expecting fun / Old Adam smiling lay. / O hare it is good eating, / Thus did old Adam say. / Old Adam was a poacher, / Went out one day at Fall, / To catch a hare for roasting, / And eating, bones and all.
2. A keeper that was passing, / Peer'd slyly through the brake / Saw Adam with his springle; / Proceeded both to take. / Hare not his'n, / So in prison / Old Adam groaning lay. / O hare it is good eating / But not for him to-day, / Old Adam was a poacher / Went out one day at Fall / Went out that morning looking big / Returnèd, looking small.