“Up rode the Duke on a loverly white 'orse,
To find out the cause of the bother,
He looked at the musket and then at Old Sam,
And he talked to Old Sam like a brother”

—  Stanley Holloway

Sam, Sam, Pick Oop Tha' Musket

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