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Rudyard Kipling - A Smuggler`s Song
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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 ask 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!

If you see the stable-door setting open wide;
If you see a tired horse lying down inside;
If your mother mends a coat cut about and tore;
If the lining`s wet and warm — don`t you ask no more!

If you meet King George`s men, dressed in blue and red,
You be careful what you say, and mindful what is said.
If they call you "pretty maid," and chuck you `neath the chin,
Don`t you tell where no one is, nor yet where no one`s been!

Knocks and footsteps round the house — whistles after dark —
You`ve no call for running out till the house-dogs bark.
Trusty`s here, and Pincher`s here, and see how dumb they lie —
They don`t fret to follow when the Gentlemen go by!

If you do as you`ve been told, `likely there`s a chance,
You`ll be given a dainty doll, all the way from France,
With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvet hood —
A present from the Gentlemen, along o` being good!

Five and twenty ponies,
Trotting through the dark —
Brandy for the Parson,
`Baccy for the Clerk;
Them that asks no questions isn`t told a lie —
Watch the wall, my darling, 
While the Gentlemen go by!
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