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1. There was an old man,
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   Lived over the hill
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   If he ain’t moved away
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   He’s a livin’ there still

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   Hie diddle, diddle lie fie
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   Hie diddtle  lie day

2  Well, the devil came up
   To him one day
   Said one of your family
   I’m gonna take away

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3. Oh  please don’t take
   My eldest son,
   There’s work on the farm
   That’s gotta be done

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4. It’s all I want
   Is that wife of yours
   Well you can take her
   With all of my heart

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5. Well the devil picks the wife
   Upon his back
   And off to hell
   With a clickitty-clack

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6. He carries her on about
   A mile down the road
   Said hey old woman
   You’re a devil of a load

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7. He carries her down
   To the gates of hell
   Says poke up the fire
   We’re gonna scorch her well

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8. There’s two little devils
   With a ball and a chin
   He ups with her foot
   And kicks out their brain

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9. There’s nine little devils
   A climbin’ a wall
   Saying taker her back daddy
   She’ll murder us all

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10. Well I got up next mornin’
   I spied through a crack
   I seen the devil come
   Draggin’ her back
 
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11. He said here’s your wife
   Both sound and well
   I we’d kept her there longer
   She’d a torn up hell

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12. Said I’ve been a devil
   Most all of my life
   But I’ve never been in hell
   ‘Till I met your wife

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13. This only goes to show
   What women can do
   She can whup up the devil
   And her husband too

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14. This show that women
   Are better than men
   They can go down to hell
   And come back again.