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It knocks me can in, this ere game uv life, / A bloke gets born, grows up, looks round fer fun, / Dreams dilly dreams, then wakes to find a wife / An' fambly round 'im - all 'is young days done. / An', gazin' back, sees in 'is youth a man / Scarce reckernised. It fair knocks in me can!
Ther's me. I never seemed to mark no change / As I mooched on through life frum year to year; / An' yet, at times it seems to me dead strange / That me, uv old, is me, 'oo's sittin' 'ere. / Per'aps it ain't. 'E was a crook young coot, / While I'm a sturdy farmer, growin' froot.