| Get in line, keep in time with the Drum
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| And don’t forget you’re nothing yet but water
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| Are you coming to or coming from
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| The understanding that I’m handing it to you?
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| Or is that a job you don’t dare do?
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| Hey, my sweet patootie, there’s a letter for you
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| (you'll find it on the shelf)
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| — Though it was posted in Calcutta
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| I know it’s just another that you’ve written to yourself
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| We watched a distant drummer flashing*
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| On the beat in all his Pierrot fashion*
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| One won money, two want a show,**
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| Three thought it funny, but four want to go**
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| Get in line keep in time with the Drum
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| — Don't forget we’re nothing yet but water
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| Don’t move your feet until the next beat comes —
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| One of the laws says pause between
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| Though I would hate to make the game seem mean
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| Hey my pretty flower can you guess where I’ve been?
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| Can you guess at all?
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| I’ve been to your rooms and learned
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| You have all the mirrors turned against the wall
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| We watched a distant drummer flashing*
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| On the beat in all his Pierrot fashion*
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| One won money, two want a show,**
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| Three thought it funny, but four want to go**
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| Listen now to the sound of the Drum —
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| And don’t forget we’re nothing yet but water
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| It won’t be pleasant when the present time is done
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| Testing nightly 'neath a sprightly summer moon
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| Your spirit like a jelly in a spoon
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| Hey ma jolie fleur there’s a cat in the room
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| And it’s not the type you’re used to
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| Though I think I led it to the sink
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| And tried to make it drink
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| It refused to |