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Old Songs  223

Where were you all the while?
Oh, I was at the battle of the Nile,
I was there all the while.

Some one then requests that the company sing the forty-ninth verse of that song. The words are repeated. Other verses are called for, but the joke is that every verse is the same as the first.

A drawing of three interlocking horseshoes