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Grain Of Salt, A

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Of all the wimming doubly blest     The sailor's wife's the happiest,     For all she does is stay to home     And knit and darn, and let 'im roam.     Of all the husbands on the earth     The sailor has the finest berth,     For in 'is cabin he can sit     And sail and sail, and let 'er knit.

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