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Me father kept a boarding house
Hullabaloo belay
Hullabaloo belah belay
Me father kept a boarding house
Hullabaloo belay
The boarding house was on the quay
But the lodgers were nearly all at sea
A flash young fella named Shallow Brown
Followed me mother all over the town
Me father said, “Young man, me boy”
To which I quickly made reply
Next day when me father was in the Crown
Me mother ran off with Shallow Brown
[Slowly, hats off] Me father slowly pined away
Cause mother came back on the very next day