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Z:abc-transcription from old AF website by Cliff Robinson, January 2019

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T:Dead Dog Scrumpy
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Q:1/4=150
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w:1.Well my sto-ry starts a few years back in a lit-tle ci-der mill A poor old dog lay
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w:down to rest as he was feel-ing ill. He chose a most pre-car-ious place a-bove a scrum-py 
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w:vat, And in his sleep he tum-bled in and drowned just like a rat. 
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w:Dead dog scrum-py, dead dog scrum-py, From the ap-ple tree. 
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w: Dead dog scrum-py, dead dog scrum-py Full of pe-di-gree
W:
W:2.Well it caused his mas-ter for to grieve and like-wise his mist-ress too, 
W:And so their sorr-ows for to drown they sam-pled of the brew, 
W:Well "rot me socks!" the far-mer cried, "It's~the best I e'eer didsup!",
W:So sum-mon all the neigh-bours in and bid them take a cup.
W:
W:3.Now every man who drank that night got as drunk as drunk could be,
W:And wondered how the scrumpy had acquired such potency
W:The farmer kept his counsel as he took another drop
W:When all at once the poor old dog came floating to the top
W:
W:4. Now a silence fell upon that room and every man did frown
W:They recognised old Bendigo though he was upside down;
W:The parson changed his colour and collapsed upon the floor,
W:The squire he split his breeches in the rush to reach the door.
W:
W:5. “Fear not!” then shouts the farmer, “For in his life I vow,
W:He never bit no man nor beast, nor will he bite ye now;
W:And this shall be his epitaph, ‘Here lies old faithful Ben 
W:Who perished in the cider vat, and quickly rose again"