cooper's rum

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i never had a spirit like a cooper's rum

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i never had a spirit like a cooper's rum

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i never had a spirit like a cooper's rum

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i never had a spirit like a cooper's rum

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i never had a spirit like a cooper's rum

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i never had a spirit like a cooper's rum

from molasses black and thick as tar

muscovado sugar in a rusty jar

stored for years in a powder keg

stirred around with a wooden leg

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hey ri do more rum

i never had a spirit like a cooper's rum

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hey ri do more rum

i never had a spirit like a cooper's rum

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hey ri do more rum

i never had a spirit like a cooper's rum

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i never had a spirit like a cooper's rum

from the rotten stalks of sugar canes

mixed with dirt and roasted grains

cut with water thick of weed

twice times sieved through a moldy reed

hey ri do rum dum

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i never had a spirit like a cooper's rum

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hey ri do more rum

i never had a spirit like a cooper's rum

hey ri do rum dum

hey ri do more rum

i never had a spirit like a cooper's rum

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i never had a spirit like a cooper's rum

i beg your attention

so now

quiet if you please

i'd like to propose a toast

to the queen that last in hell

from molasses black and thick as tar

muscovado sugar in a rusty jar

stored for years in a powder keg

stirred around with a wooden leg

hey ri do rum dum

hey ri do more rum

i never had a spirit like a cooper's rum

hey ri do rum dum

hey ri do more rum

i never had a spirit like a cooper's rum

hey ri do rum dum

hey ri do more rum

i never had a spirit like a cooper's rum

hey ri do rum dum

hey ri do more rum

i never had a spirit like a cooper's rum

oh we've never had a spirit

no we've never had a spirit

no we've never had a spirit like a cooper's rum