N-The Two Drummers (My Mother was a lady)
C-Jos. W. Stern
A-Edw. B. Marks
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L-      Two   drum-mers sat a din-ner    in a grand ho-tel one day,    While di-ning they were chat-ting in a jol-ly sort of way,
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L-      And when a  pret-ty wait-ress  brought them a tray of food,     They spoke to her fa-mil-iar-ly in man-ner ra- ther  rude.
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L-       At first she did not no-tice them, or make the least re-ply,  But one re-mark was passed that brought the tear drops to her eye
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L-      And, fa-cing her tor-men-tor, with cheeks now bur-ning red,     She looked a per-fect pic-ture as ap-pea-ling-ly  she  said,
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L-     "My       mo-            ther      was             a      la-      dy,                            Like    yours,          you
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L-       will           al-       low,                                   And       you        may         have            a
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L-     sis-       ter                           who      needs           pro-     tec-   tion               now;
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L-                I've   come             to     this            great    ci-     ty,                               to    find
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L-       a       bro-           ther       dear,                                  And you  woul-  dn't          dare             in-
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L-      sult     me,            Sir,            if      Jack             were     on-             ly       here!"