Half-a-crown?

Who despises it, in all the town,

You shall find a human being never

From the tinselled monarch to the clown.

Let a man be dull of brain or clever,

Be his lot, or up in life or down,

Easily from him you shall not sever

Half-a-crown.

Around and about the singer his song disperses

He flings to the heavens a crashing mellifluous shout.