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The Book of Nonsense/There was an Old Man with a flute

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London: F. Warne & Co., page 11

There was an Old Man with a flute.
A "sarpint" ran into his boot;
But he played day and night,
Till the "sarpint" took flight,
And avoided that man with a flute.

A reading of "There was an Old Man with a flute"