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GIPSY VANS
Unless you come of the gipsy stock / That steals by night and day, / Lock your heart with a double lock / And throw the key away. / Bury it under the blackest stone / Beneath your father's hearth, / And keep your eyes on your lawful own / And your feet to the proper path. / _Then you can stand at your door and mock / When the gipsy-vans come through. / For it isn't right that the Gorgio stock / Should live as the Romany do._