====== #482 - Awfully Clever ======
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  *Composer:
    *++George William Hunt|{{search>"George William Hunt" @cobs}}++ (1839-1904), 1872
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
I'm a fella who doesn't like bothar,\\
All trouble's a deuce of a bore;\\
I've an income left me by my mothaw,\\
What on earth could a fella want more!\\
My favorite sport's killing time,\\
My aim's to do nothing at all,\\
While some thro' this world run or climb,\\
I take the trip easy and crawl.\\
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//chorus: //\\
But they tell me I'm awfully clevar,\\
Oh, so clevar, deuced clevar;\\
They say that they nevar\\
Met a fella so clevar before.\\
//(repeat chorus)//\\
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Some fellas go in for the army,\\
And some fellas go in for trade,\\
But I havn't such bores to alarm me,\\
My fortune was alteady made.\\
And some fellas go in for brains,\\
And scribble to turn in a penny,\\
Those fellas deserve all their gains,\\
As for brains I could do without any.\\
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In the Park I am often seen driving,\\
When the dear girls take me for a duke!\\
Whenever I go in for billiards,\\
Somehow I'm a demon to fluke.\\
Sometimes to an evening party,\\
To keep them alive in I peep,\\
Whenever they ask me to sing\\
They're certain to fall fast asleep.\\
//spoken://\\
I give them "Down among the Coals," you know,\\
or else I give them the "Dead March in Saul"\\
on the flute; Oh, it's awfully jolly, they do laugh,\\
it completely doubles them up --\\
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Some fellas will borrow a tenner,\\
For which I get no I.O.U.;\\
Sometimes I assist them in bills,\\
Which I have to pay when they're due.\\
There are mothers, with daughters to marry,\\
Somehow take a fancy to me;\\
They think they're as deep as Old Harry,\\
But the bait and the hook I can see.\\
//spoken: //\\
And when they find it is no go, they say --\\
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    *++George William Hunt|{{search>"George William Hunt" @cobs}}++ (1839-1904), 1872