By the side of the mill

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By the side of the mill with its sails hang-ing still and the bridge so quaint,
We've been pos-ing for hours with our bas-kets of flow'rs as they paint, paint, paint!
For they like us to pose in our poor peas-ant clothes with our wood-en sa-bots and our queer col-ored hose,
but we real-ly sup-pose that not one of them knows that we do so be-cause we love them.

By the side of the mill with its sails hang-ing still and the bridge so quaint,
We've been pos-ing for hours with our bas-kets of flow'rs as they paint, paint, paint!
But from art let us part,
but from art let us part,
let us part, but from art let us part,

E-nough of work let is have a lit-tle plea-sure now,
for it will soon be noon and we're real-ly ver-y hun-gry, and thir-sty,
If you don't know what to or-der we will show you how,
cold meat and beer right here,
Shall we go and have it now?

Girls, as you know we are wed a-lone to art
and it breaks our heart but we have to de-vote all we own to art.
So like the best of good friends we have to part.
But to ease the smart let us try to for-get that we have to.
But we are broke, and lunch-eons are ex-pen-sive!
It would be nice if we but had the price.
If they would trust us, you might drink cham-pagne there.


But they will trust you if you'll just ex-plain there.
We know we might, We're thirst-y now,
We're thirst-y now, we're thirst-y, thirst-y thirst-y.
E-nough of work let us have a lit-tle pleas-ure now, for it will soon be noon.
And we're real-ly ver-y hung-ry and thirst-y.
E-nough of work e-nough of work let's have a lit-tle pleas-ure now, we'll show you how
come let us go and have it now;
let us have a lit-tle fun, let us have a lit-tle fun, it will soon be noon!
Let us have a lit-tle fun,
Let us have a lit-tle fun,
Oh, come e-nough of work e-nough of work,
e-nough of work, come let us have a lit-tle fun!
Oh! come.
Oh! come.