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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, |
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Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bones. |
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Slience the pianos and with muffled drum. |
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Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. |
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Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead. |
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Scribbling on the sky the message: He Is Dead. |
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Put crepe bows around the white necks of the public doves. |
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Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. |
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He was my Nourth, my South, my East and West. |
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My working week and my Sunday rest. |
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My moon, my midnight, my talk, my song. |
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I thought that love would last for ever, I was wrong. |
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The stars are not wanted now, put out everyone. |
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Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun. |
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Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. |
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For nothing now are evercome to any good. |