No doubt you are a mighty man, with potent powers of speech,
But still we didn’t ask you here to bleed us like a leech.
Oh! John Bright, wont you find some tin,
We fear ’twill be expensive work for us to get you in.
Your name is printed in large type, while ours are printed small,
The printers and the bill stickers are paid to daub the wall;
And ’tis a shame, and does somewhat of shabbiness betray,
That you should have the dance, John Bright, and we the piper pay.
Oh! John Bright, &c.
The honour’s great to us, John Bright, to serve so great a man;