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Fifty children sitting in the trees,<br>
Fifty children swingin in the breeze,<br>
Up in the branches and off their knees,<br>
Hooray for the Lambeth children, O,<br>
Hooray for the Lambeth children, O.<br>
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Eleven fine maples growing in a row,<br>
The road to be widened doomed them to go,<br>
But fifty kids of Lambeth cried "No, no!"<br>
Hooray for the Lambeth children, O,<br>
Hooray for the Lambeth children, O.<br>
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Roads we've enough and roads everywhere,<br>
Roads for the cars we can very well spare,<br>
But long live the maple trees, green or bare,<br>
And hooray for the Lambeth children, O,<br>
Hooray for the Lambeth children, O.<br>
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Woodsmen came with their axes and their saws,<br>
But kids on the branches, chirruping like daws,<br>
And the woodsmen said, "The devil with the laws,<br>
And hooray for the Lambeth children, O,<br>
And hooray for the Lambeth children, O."<br>
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Lambeth town in Ontario,<br>
That's where the maple trees stand in a row,<br>
That's where the loveliest children grow,<br>
Hooray for the Lambeth children, O,<br>
Hooray for the Lambeth children, O.