Boy for Sale

by Lionel Bart

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One boy, boy for sale
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He's going cheap, only seven guineas
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That or thereabout
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Small boy, rather pale
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Through lack of sleep, feed him gruel dinners
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Stop him getting stout
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If I should say he wasn't very  greedy
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I could not, I'd be telling you a tale
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One boy, boy for sale
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Come take a peep, have you ever seen
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As nice a boy for sale