Then he clutched the innocent slumb’rin’ babe,
Jist meanin’ to knock out its brains;
But at that moment there reach’d his ear
Some long-forgotten strains.
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Some soft and touching music this,
Music solemn and sweet,
Played by a common organ-man
Down at the end of the street.
And it went straight home to the digger’s heart,