it’s the same the whole world over
isn’t it a bleedin’ shame
it's the rich what gets the pleasure
& the poor what gets the blame.
she
was poor but she was honest
victim
of the colonel’s whim
first
he wooed her then seduced her
&
she had a child by him.
then she went away to London
for to hide her grief & shame
but she met an army captain
& she lost her name again
in the little country cottage
where her saddened parents live
tho’ they drink the fizz she sends ‘em
yet they never can forgive.
now she’s standing in the gutter
selling matches a penny a box
while he’s riding in his carriage
with an awful dose of pox
see him in a grand theayter
eating chocolate in the pit
while the poor girl what he ruined
wanders round thru mud & shit
see him in the house of commons
making laws to put down crime
while the victim of his passion
slinks around to hide her shime
now
she’s livin’ in the cottage
but
she very rarely smiles
&
her only occupation
is
cracking ice for grandad’s piles.
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