| Old Tom Moore, from the bummer’s shore in the good old golden days
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| They call me a bummer and a ginsot too, but what cares I for praise?
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| I rove around from town to town, folks call me a roving sign
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| «Yes, just Old Tom Moore, he’s a bummer sure, from the days of '49»
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| My comrades they all loved me well, a jolly saucy crew
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| A few hard cases I will recall, though they all were brave and true
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| What’ere the pitch, they never would flinch, they never would fret nor whine
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| Like good old bricks, they stood the kicks in the days of '49
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| In the days of old, in the days of gold
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| How oft’times I repine for the days of old
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| When we dug up the gold, in the days of '49
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| There was New York Jake, the butcher boy, he was always getting tight
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| And every time that he’d get full, he was spoiling for a fight
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| But Jake rampaged against a knife in the hands of old Tom Clay
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| And over Jake they held a wake in the days of '49
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| There was Nantucket Bill, I knew him well, he was always fond of tricks
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| At a poker game, he was always there, and ready with his bricks
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| He would ante up and draw his cards, and he would you go a hatful blind
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| In the game with death, he lost his breath, in the days of '49
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| There was Ragshag Bill from Buffalo, I never will forget
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| He would roar all day and roar all night, and I guess he’s roaring yet
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| One day he fell in a prospect hole of a roaring bad design
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| And in that hole he roared out his soul, in the days of '49
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| Of the all friends that I had then, there’s no one left to toast
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| And I’m left alone in my misery like some poor wandering ghost
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| I just rove around from town to town, folks call me a roving sign
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| «Yes, just Old Tom Moore, he’s a bummer sure, from the days of '49» |