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                  A NEW SONG

                      ON THE

                EXIBITION OF

                  SIXTY-FIVE

Good people of city high and low both old and young,
I hope you'll pay attention to my Exhibition song,
And I'll let you know before, you go if you but stand awhile.
The querest things that ever yet was seen in Erins Isle,

                                          CHORUS

AH the worlds wonder as sure as I am a live,
Will be at this exibition in the year sixty-five,
Their is things that was never seen before nor never will again
Besides great big glass-hous all the world to contain,

On the 9th of May they'll open heare a pallace made of glass,
And the Prince of Wales will sit in it in state on Ballarms Ass.
Wito a present for the Irish was sent with him by the Danes
Thats the battle axe of Bryan Boro they got on Cloritaf Plains

Now from every Nation on the erth strange faces you will see
With some thing new and novel or great curiosity
From Adams darning needle now bleve me its no lie,
To the broom with which the old woman sweept the cobwebs off
the sky,

There at this exibition they will have a new Machine,
To grind old men and women young and make children by steem
But if old maids goes into it that lay too long on the shelfe,
They'll be ground up into babey rags their tom cats & themselves

Tere you'll see the queen-ann-farthing with Cromwells coper nose
And the gun Robnison-cruso had for firing at the crows,
The glass slipper of cinderilla manufactured by the jew,
Juto new invented sPect for th mak Blind-men read the news

Now. at this exibition for truth as we are told,
They have three american-mnn-awars made of callofornia gold
With some thundering woodden cannon from yanky doodledo
And the threecock'd hat that Boney lost on the plains of waterloo

They'll have Russans, and Prusians, both Dutchmen & Jews,
With Spanorias, Signorias, and great Parlevoos;
landers, Laplanders, and India Phoo Fangs,
Portagees, Lilliputians, and Chinny Wang Wangs !

Some thousands from new Market likewise the weavers square
Pim'ico Coal Alley the Coomb and every where,
To see the aoogeen of St. Cavan that he got from: King O Tool
With the beard of Pontiouspilate, & the jaws of Fanmacool,

Now to conclude and finish my exibition song,
The young the lame and laizey assembled in the throng,
To gee the Illuminations I'm stire the did not tail
To congratulate his Hiness the Royal Prince of Wales,