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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.