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There Was a Man
 by: Leslie Brooke
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There was a man, and he had nought,
  And robbers came to rob him;
There Was a Man

He crept up to the chimney-pot,
  And then they thought they had him;

There Was a Man

But he got down on t'other side,
  And then they could not find him;

There Was a Man

He ran fourteen miles in fifteen days,
  And never looked behind him.

There Was a Man