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"Times were hard in Ir-ish town Ev-'ry thing was go-ing down, Pat Ma-lone"
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"was pushed for rea-dy cash. He'd the life in-sur-ance spent, all his mo-"
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"ney, too, had went and all of his af-fairs had gone to smash. His wife"
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"spoke up and said, ``Now dear Pat if you were dead This twen-ty thou-sand"
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"dol-lars we could take. And so Pat lay down and tried to make out that he"
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"had died. Un-til he smelled the whis-key at the wake. Then Pat Ma-lone"
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"for-got that he was dead. He raised him-self in the bed and what he"
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"said.'' If this wake goes on a mi-nute to be sure the corpse is in it,"
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"You'll have to keep me drunk to keep me dead. "
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