"I'd just as soon be a beggar as king, And the reason I'll tell you for why; A king cannot swagger, nor drink like a beggar, Nor be half so happy as I. * * * * * Let the back and side go bare."
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Old English Folk Song. In Cecil Sharpe's Folk Songs from Somerset.
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