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No, this was in olden days.
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I read about it in Milly's book.
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- A book!
- Why, this is history.
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This really happened.
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Tell you about them sobbin' women
Who lived in the Roman days
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It seems that they all went swimmin'
While their men was off to graze
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Well a Roman troop was riding by
And saw them in their "me-oh-mys"
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So they took them all
Back home to dry
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Least that's what Plutarch says
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Them women was
Sobbin', sobbin', sobbin'
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Fit to be tied
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Every muscle was throbbin', throbbin'
From that riotous ride
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Seems they cried and kissed
And kissed and cried
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All over that Roman countryside
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So don't forget that
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When you're taking a bride
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Sobbin', fit to be tied
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From that riotous ride
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- So then what happened?
- Gather round, I'll tell you.
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They never did return their plunder
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The victor gets all the loot
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They carried them home by thunder
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To rotundas small but cute
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And you've never seen,
So they tell me
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Such downright domesticity
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With a Roman baby on each knee
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Named Claudius and Brute
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Them women was
Sobbin', sobbin', sobbin'
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Passin' them nights
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While the Romans was out
Hobnobbin', starting up fights
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Is that so?
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They kept occupied by sewing lots
Of little old togas...
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... for them tots
And sayin', "Someday...
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... womenfolks will have rights"
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-Passin' all their nights
- Just sewing!
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-While the Romans had fights
- Listen to this.
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"When the menfolk
Went to fetch them
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The women would not be fetched"
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Seems when the Romans catch'em
Their lady friends stay catched
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Now, let this be
Because it's true
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A lesson to the likes of you
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Rough'em up
Like them there Romans do
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Or else they'll think you're tetched
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Them women was
Sobbin', sobbin', sobbin'