Blue Mountain Lake

Intro
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Verse 1
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Come all you bold fellers, where'er you may be
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Come set down a-while and listen to me
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The truth I will tell you without a mistake
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Of the rackets we had about Blue Mountain Lake
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Derry, down, down, down, derry down

Verse 2
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There's the Sullivan brothers and Big Jimmy Lou
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Old Mose Gilbert and Dandy Pat too
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As fine lot of fellers as ever you seen
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And we all worked for Griffith on township nineteen
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Derry, down, down, down, derry, down

Verse 3
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Bill Mitchell, you know, he kept our shanty
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And as mean a damn man as you ever did see
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He'd lay round the shanty from morning till night
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And, if a man said a word, he was ready to fight
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Derry, down, down, down, derry down
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Derry, down, down, down, derry down

Verse 4
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One morning 'fore daylight Jim Lou, he got mad
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Knocked hell out of Mitchell and the boys was all glad
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His wife, she just stood there, and, the truth I will tell
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She was tickled to death to see Mitchell catch hell
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Derry, down, down, down, derry down
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Derry, down, down, down, derry down

Verse 5
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Old Griffith he stood here, the crabby old Drake
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And a hand in the racket, we thought he would ake
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But a couple of the boys come and took him away
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"Becripes," said old Griffith, "I've nothing to say"
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Derry, down, down, down, derry down
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Derry, down, down, down, derry down

Verse 6
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You can talk of your fashions and styles to be seen
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But there's none like Nellie the cook of nineteen
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She's short, thick and stout, without a mistake
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And we all call her Nellie, the belle of Long Lake
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Derry, down, down, down, derry down
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Derry, down, down, down, derry down

Verse 7
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Well, my song's about over, adieu to you all
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Christmas is coming and I'm going to Glens Falls
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And, when I get there, I'll go out on a spree
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"Cause when I get drunk, boys, the devil's in me
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Derry, down, down, down, derry down
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Derry, down, down, down, derry down