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I was taking compass bearings for the Ordanance Survey
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On an army training camp on Salisbury plain.
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I had packed up my theodolite, I was calling it a day
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When I heard a voice that sang a sad refrain:
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Oh my darling armadillo, let me tell you of my love,
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Listen to my armadillo roundelay.
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Be my fellow on my pillow underneath this weeping willow,
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Be my darling armadillo all the day.
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I was somewhat disconcerted by this curious affair
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For a single armadillo, you alone,
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On Salisbury plain in summer is comparitively rare
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And a pair of them is practically unknown.
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Drawn by that mellow solo, there I followed on my bike
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To discover what these armadillo lovers might be like.
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Oh my darling armadillo how delightful it would be
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If for us those silver wedding bells should chime.
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Let the orange blossoms billow, you need only say I will, oh
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Be my darling armadillo all the time.
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Then I saw them in a hollow on a yellow muddy bank;
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An armadillo singing to an armour-plated tank.
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Should I tell him gaunt and rusting with the willow tree above,
This abandoned on-manoeuvres is the object of your love?
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I left him to his singing, I cycled home without a pause.
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Never tell a man the truth about the one that he adores.
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On the breeze that followed sunset I could hear that sad refrain
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Singing willow, willow, willow down the way.
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And I seem to hear it still oh vive l'amour, vive l'armadillo,
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Be my darling armadillo all the day.
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Be my darling armadillo all the day.