LAMBED DOWN.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 236, 22 October 1878, Page 3

LAMBED DOWN.

You have emptied his pockets and melted his tin ; You have made him a madman with brandy and gin, And he raves with the horrors, as hoarse comes his cry, " More brandy, more brandy! or may be I'll die. More brandy, more brandy! you won't turn me out ? When I've sugar again, I'll come back and I'll shout ; I've not a sou left; I am fairly done brown; My lockers are empty ; I'm nicely lambed down." He was simple and trustful; he fancied you true, When he handed that cheque o'er the counter to you ; And he looked at the bottles arranged in his sight ; And he hailed them as his "with a glow of delight; And he shouted the hard stuff in billy and can ; And he knocked down his cheque with the pride of a man. But his revel Js ended. He's fairly done brown; He's fly-blown and needy, and nicely lambed down. His cheque was all melted ; the landlord then said, v You haven't a rap that would pay for a bed." So he gave him his swag, which was empty and light, And he opened the door and bade him good night. Then the fleeceless, he staggered away through the mire ; While his heart was so cold and his head was on fire"; And he thought as he wended his way through the town, "What a mopoke I've been to be thus lambed down. >. Next morning a peeler the swagsman descried, And sauntering up to the wayfarer's side, He first turned him over, and then raised his head ; And found the poor vagrant was speechless and dead. Yes, killed by the grog that had shattered his brain ■; And kicked out to die in the cold and the rain ; * Well, 'twas only a swagsman cleaned out and done brown. Only one out of scores that are daily lambed down. And that boss at the public who stuck .to his tin, Swore he tried his hardest to keep him within— That he doctored and nursed him, an' fed him galore— Had he been his own brother he couldn't % do more 1 He was bad when he came from a long' ci drinking bout, And he hadn't so much as could raise a round shout 1 And this is the way that we're robbed and done brown, ! And hocussed and murdered while being lambed down. j