| On the coldest night of the year
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| At a pub called, «The Elephant’s Ear»
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| Incredible Phat, the Inn Keeper’s cat
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| Was having a saucer of beer
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| With fourteen merry gentlemen
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| On the coldest night of the year
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| As the hour of eleven drew near
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| Some poor stranger in rags did appear
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| At the door of the Inn-
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| Face weary and thin-
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| To ask, «Is there any room here?»
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| But the owner just laughed and said,
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| «My friend, it’s the coldest night of the year.
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| «We've a sheikh with three wives,
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| And a moneylender.
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| A taxman, a soldier, and a harness mender
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| Three balmy old coots in silver boots-
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| Two are stargazers and the other’s a seer.»
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| Out into the night crystal clear
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| The stranger went hiding a tear
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| And Incredible Phat, the Inn Keeper’s cat,
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| Followed and saw standing near
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| A donkey bearing a pale, sweet girl
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| Through the coldest night of the year.
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| While the barmaid, the priest and the diplomat
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| Bought one last round for the acrobat
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| And a spy with no chin, who had also come in
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| From the cold, with Harod’s surly charioteer.
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| But Phat said, «Friends be of good cheer!
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| For I know of a shelter that’s near.
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| And he lead them out back to a tumbled down shack
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| Where the Inn Keeper’s wife kept her steer.
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| And he said, 'It's the warmest place in town
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| On the coldest night of the year.
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| Yes he said, «It's the warmest place in town…
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| On the coldest night of the year.» |