The Song of the Flannelette.
It's a very good material, and very useful, too, If you've got too many children, there s an easy thing to do , You dress them all in flannelette, and light a candle near, And the funeral's to-morrow, and a little white-plumed bier. Ah! flannelette, flannelette. Of the Coroner a pet, For you bring: him in his fees, and his learned mind don't tease. It's very simple— "Burnt through flannelette !"
A Darwin we are seeking, but he's very hard to find (But a Customs ease decision the truth can't always bind). What's the origin of species of the dutied flannelette? For the tree or sheep it grew on is to be discovered 1 yet. Ah! flannelette', flannelette, The "Reaper's" favourite fishine net. If someone calls you wool he's labelled straight a fool, But he musn't call you cotton flanelette! — Melbourne "Punch."
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Free Lance, Volume III, Issue 154, 13 June 1903, Page 22
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145The Song of the Flannelette. Free Lance, Volume III, Issue 154, 13 June 1903, Page 22
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