| KNOWN TO THE POLICE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I am so glad, 'cause I love a handsome girl All around the neighbours they call her saucy Sal I love the girl sincerely... I know that she loves me The lass I love belongs to such a decent family. Chorus: Her Father and her Mother, her sister and her brother Her uncle and her auntie, her nephew and her niece She said she had a cousin, I found she'd half a dozen And the whole blessed family were known to the police. Her Father was a poacher and one night they did him nail Her Mother stole the time of day and got six months in jail Her sister took some washing in, her liberty it cost Her brother he found lots of coin, I think before 'twas lost. Chorus: Her uncle he was collared selling whiskey on the sly Her auntie did some 'stepping' 'cause she blacked a bobby's eye Her nephew he made money, he made it in a mould Her niece she tried to pass it, but the pair of them got 'sold'. Chorus: Her cousins joined the army but their characters were bad For quickly they deserted, so they stuck them all in quad And my gal, she knows a thing or two, at least the neighbours say She lived sometime, in foreign parts, at a place called Botany Bay. Chorus: |
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| Performed by Fred Coyne (1845-1886) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||