A month ago I took a house
A little way from Town,
Determined that in solitude,
I should be settled down.
The first morning that I awoke
I rose up with a groan,
For I found my next door neighbour
Daily practised the Trombone.

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In aggravating tones,
He must have had the largest
And the loudest of trombones.
Pom,pom, pom,pom, pom, pom,pom,
I could have smashed his bones,
The line you must draw somewhere,
And I draw it at trombones.

When I found out the sort of man
I for a neighbour had,
Upon my word I really thought
I should have gone quite mad.
I can do with certain instruments,
And love sweet vocal tones,
I can stand the clarionet or flute,
But,dash it! not trombones? f

Spoken - Especially when you hear nothing - else but...

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Now whether you are humble,
Or possess a lot of pelf,
A motto says that you should love
Your neighbour as yourself.
Well I might have loved my neighbour
If he'd played a tune right through,
But for lonr weeks every morning,
This is all I've heard him do

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For quite three hours this morning
He had played without a pause,
At last I got quite angry,
And I'm sure you'll say I'd cause.
I banged against the wall and said,
"Sir, this is quite absurd
For goodness sake, take twelve bars rest."
But this is all I heard.

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I advertised my house to let,
And soon a tenant got
A lady, who remarked, "Oh, what
A charming little spot"
She's taken it for six months,
And she's paid the money down,
She revels in rural residences
And her name is Brown.

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