As I was going to Derby, 'twas on a market day
I met the finest ram, sirs, that ever was fed upon hay
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That's a lie, that's a lie
That's a lie, a lie, a lie!
This ram and I got drunk, sir, as drunk as drunk could be
And when we sobered up, sir, we were far away out on the sea
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This wonderful old ram, sir, was playful as a kid;
He swallowed the captain's spyglass along with the bo'sun's fid
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One morning on the poop, sir, afore eight bells was struck
He climbed up to the sky's I yard an' sat down on the truck
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This wonderful ol' ram, sir, he tried a silly trick
He tried to jump a five-barred fence and landed in a rick
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This wonderful ol' ram, sir, it grew two horns of brass
One grew out o' his shoulder blade, t'other turned into a mast
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An' when this ram was killed, sir, the butcher was covered in blood
Five and twenty butcher boys was carried away the flood
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An' when this ram was dead, sir, they buried it in St. Joan's
It took ten men an' an elephant to carry one of its bones