The Royal Scam

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 And they

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 wandered in from  the city
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of St.John without a
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dime,  Wearing
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 coats that shine both red and
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green colors from their sunny is --
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land,  From their

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 boats of iron they looked upon
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--- the promised land where surely
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life was sweet, on the
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rising tide to New York --
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City did they ride into the
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 street, See the

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glo--ry ,see the ---  glo -- ry
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of the royal
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scam,  They are

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hounded down to the bottom
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of a bad town amid   the
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ruins,  where they
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learn to fear an angry race
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of fallen kings their dark com
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panions,  while the

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memories of their southern sky
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was clouded by a savage
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winter,  Every
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 patron saint hung on the wall,
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shared the room with twenty
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sinners,   See the

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 glo--ry ,see the --- glo -- ry
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Of the royal
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scam

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By the

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the blackened wall he does it all
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 he thinks he's died and gone to
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heaven,  Now the
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 tale is told by the old man
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back home he reads the
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letter, How they are

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 paid in gold jst to babble
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in he back room all night and waste their
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and waste their time,  And they
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wandered in from  the city
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of St.John without a
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dime,  See the

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glo--ry ,see the --- glo -- ry
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Of the royal scam .
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scam,  see the
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glo--ry ,see the --- glo -- ry
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Of the royal
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scam,  see the
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glo--ry ,see the --- glo -- ry
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Of the royal
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scam

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