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Last year's troubles
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Last year's troubles they're so old-fashioned
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The robber on the highway, the pirate on the seas
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Maybe it's the clothing that's so entertaining
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The earrings and the swashbuckling blouses that please
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Here we have heroes of times that have passed now
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But nobody these days has that kind of chin
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Over there the petticoats of ladies of virtue
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You can hardly tell them from the petticoats of sin
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Look at all the waifs of Dickensian England
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Why is it their suffering is more picturesque?
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Must be cause their rags are so very Victorian
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The ones here at home just don't give it their best
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Last year's troubles they shine up so pretty
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They gleam with a luster they don't have today
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Here it's just dirty and violent and troubling
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Etcetera ...
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Last year's troubles
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Trouble is still trouble and evil still evil
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Sometimes we wonder is it more now or less?
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If we had a tool or could tally the handfuls
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Measure for measure it's the same would be my guess
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Last year's troubles
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Last year's troubles