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Then, tho' the key of the church door Was left with the Parson his brother,It opened at the Sexton's touch— Because he had another.
And in they go with that villain Joe To fetch the body by night,And all the church look'd dismally By his dark lanthorn light.
They laid the pick-axe to the stones And they moved them soon asunder.They shovell'd away the hard-prest clay And came to the coffin under.
They burst the patent coffin first And they cut thro' the lead,And they laugh'd aloud when they saw the shroud Because they had got at the dead.
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