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If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet, / Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street. / Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie, / Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! / Five and twenty ponies, / Trotting through the dark -- / Brandy for the Parson, / 'Baccy for the Clerk; / Laces for a lady, letters for a spy, / And watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!
Running round the woodlump if you chance to find / Little barrels, roped and tarred, all full of brandy-wine, / Don't you shout to come and look, nor use 'em for your play. / Put the brishwood back again -- and they'll be gone next day!