I once was well acquainted with a man called Joseph Dunn
A very special kind of man who loved to have some fun
He quarted young and married was by the age of twenty one
And a very respectable family had Mr. and Mrs. Dunn
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For there was high Dunns and low Dunns
and under Dunns and over Dunns
All the other younger Dunns in and out they run
There was young Dunn and old Dunn
and young Dunn’s youngest son
Young Dunn will be a Dunn when old Dunn’s done
And of course in time that Mr. Dunn he found himself a wife
and soon he found he had to fight the hardest fight in life
To keep their little bellies full and a wife that weighed a ton
And if any man could do all that you’d have to say, “Well done”
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For there was high Dunns and low Dunns
and under Dunns and over Dunns
All the other younger Dunns in and out they run
There was young Dunn and old Dunn
and young Dunn’s youngest son
Young Dunn will be a Dunn when old Dunn’s done
When Mrs. Dunn presented Dunn with their first bouncing son
they called him Herbert Seamus Dunn but named him Cherry Plum
And when the bread of life went up and children more did come
says Mrs. Dunn to Mr. Dunn, “More breader will be done”
For there was high Dunns and low Dunns
and under Dunns and over Dunns
All the other younger Dunns in and out they run
There was young Dunn and old Dunn
and young Dunn’s youngest son
Young Dunn will be a Dunn when old Dunn’s done
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Now here’s the youngest son of Dunn likewise the son of Dunn
and here’s the oldest son of Dunn when all is said and done
‘Cause if any man could do all that in this big wicked world
If it’s been done to done it’s been well done
You’d have to say, “Well done”
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For there was high Dunns and low Dunns
and under Dunns and over Dunns
All the other younger Dunns in and out they run
There was young Dunn and old Dunn
and young Dunn’s youngest son
Young Dunn will be a Dunn when old Dunn’s done
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