BOY FOR SALE (From "Oliver!")

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Song Title
BOY FOR SALE (From "Oliver!")
Writers
Lionel Bart
Publisher
HOLLIS MUSIC, INC. (BMI)
Co-Publisher
TRO Affiliate
% Publisher Controls
100%
Territory Controlled
US AND CANADA
Themes/Keywords
Boy, Greed, Money, oliver, Sale, Slavery
Lyrics
One boy, boy for sale, he’s going cheap!
Only seven guineas, that or thereabout.

Small boy, rather pale through lack of sleep. (Fine boy, boy for sale, he’s yours to keep)*
Feed him gruel dinners., stop him getting stout. (For one thousand pennies, you can work it out)

That’s four pounds, three and four, slightly under four guineas knocked down from seven guineas;
Three pounds what, sir! Certainly not, sir! Any advance on three pounds ten, then?
Going, going, gone.

If I should say he wasn’t very greedy, I could not.
I’d be telling you a tale.

One boy, boy for sale, come take a peep.
Have you ever seen as nice a boy for sale?

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