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FabelFortyFive FabelFortyFive CharlaXFabels This Limmerick There was an Old Lady she hailed from Nantucket She carried her fish in a red paisley bucket She wore her hair up in a honeybun She thought it made her quite the looking young The Pelican came with a busted wing The Old Lady was trying to catch it She chased and she chased and she chased it She carried a stick made of glass She has lippstick it is gloss She applies it to snakes and scorpions The glass stick not the lipp gloss She makes a poor lump of it The lipp gloss is read like two lips Tulips is many and varied in hue She walks in the way of the shrew She carries her stick to save birds The bird not the woman in the shoe That was Old Mother Hubbard She has tea in her cupboard The Nantucket not Hubbard She makes it in gold bullion cubes The tea not the shoes Millions of bags are hidden away Shoe bags not tea bags she has shoes for her children Yes Hubbard In the Cubbard The teas are all black and some green The shoes are all pink Her children are blue The Lady from Nan not the Shoe lady too The dog eats better than the yew A bone from the woman Hubbard not Joan There was an old woman from Nantucket Joan Hubbard was from Shoe Rhode Island She kept teas in the millions The Nantucket lady not Hubbard

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