| Old Judge Thayer take your shackle off of me;
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| Old Judge Thayer, take your shackle off of me;
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| Turn your key and set me free
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| Old Judge Thayer take your shackle off of me
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| The monkey unlocked the courthouse door
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| The elephant oiled the hardwood floor;
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| In did jump the kangaroo
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| In did hop the rabbits, too
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| Next in come the two baboons
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| Next in rolled a dusty storm
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| Next in waddled the polar bear
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| To keep the judge and jury warm
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| Everybody knows that the mocking bird
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| Wrote down every word he heard
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| The lawyers all were sly
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| With foxy nose and a foxy eye
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| The 'possum used the big stiff broom
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| Then he polished the new spittoon;
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| Up did smile the crocodile
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| Said, «Here comes the jury down the aisle.»
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| The old lady Catfish asked the Trout
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| «What is this trial all about?»
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| The little baby Suckerfish up and said
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| «The judge has caught him a couple of Reds.»
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| The Rattlesnake asked the Bumble Bee
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| «Whose this Sacco and' Vanzetti?
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| «Are they the men,» said Mammy Quail
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| «That shot the clerks at the Slater Mill?»
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| The Mosquito sung out with his wings
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| «I was there and saw the whole blamed thing;
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| I saw the robbers fire their guns
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| But I didn’t see these men, neither one.»
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| The big-eyed Owl she looked around
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| «They say that Sacco’s cap was found
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| Down on Pearl Street on the ground
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| Where the payroll guards both got shot down.»
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| «That cap don’t fit on Sacco’s head,»
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| A big black Crow flapped up and said
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| «They tried that cap on Sacco here
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| And it fell down around both his ears.»
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| The Camel asked the old Giraffe
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| «Did these two fellows duck the draft
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| By running down below the Mexican line
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| To keep from fighting on the rich man’s side?»
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| The limber Duck did rattle his bill
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| «All the ducks and Geese are flying still
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| Down toward Mexico’s warm sun
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| To try to dodge the rich man’s gun.»
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| Up did waddle the Lucey Goose
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| «I think these men ought to be turned loose
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| But old Judge Thayer has swore to friends
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| These men will get the chair or noose.»
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| And when the guilty verdict came
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| And seven years in jail they’d laid
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| And when these two men there did die
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| The animals met on the earth and sky
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| «Oh see what fear and greed can do
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| See how it killed these sons so true?
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| Us varmints has got to get together too
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| Before Judge Thayer kills me and you.» |