Must sneeze twenty one times, such is the drill.
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Should one's tooth become loose
Four rupees will be your tax, no excuse.
If one starts sprouting a mustache
Must pay a hundred annas in cash-
Poke you in the back, bend your spine
Salute twenty one times, and fall in line.
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When walking, if ever one should stare
Right or left, here or there
The news in an instant reaches the king
The troops, to their feet they spring
In the afternoon sun, they make him sweat
And drink twenty one ladles of water, straight!
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