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Westland Row (The Rocky Road To Dublin)

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Every Sunday there's a throng         Of pretty girls, who trot along         In a pious, breathless state         (They are nearly always late)         To the Chapel, where they pray         For the sins of Saturday.         They have frocks of white and blue,         Yellow sashes they have too,         And red ribbons show each head         Tenderly is ringleted;         And the bell rings loud, and the         Railway whistles urgently.         After Chapel they will go,         Walking delicately slow,         Telling still how Father John         Is so good to look upon,         And such other grave affairs         As they thought of during prayers.

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