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BATTLE ROYAL by ANONYMOUS

First Line: THE LION AND THE UNICORN
Last Line: HIS POWER TO MAINTAIN
THE lion and the unicorn
Were fighting for the crown;
The lion beat the unicorn
All around the town.

Some gave them white bread,
And some gave them brown;
Some gave them plum cake
And drummed them out of town.

[Alternative final stanza]:

And when he had beat him out,
He beat him in again;
He beat him three times over,
His power to maintian.


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