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But that's another story.
But that's another story.
 I cannot tell how the truth may be;
 I say the tale as 'twas said to me.  
 I cannot tell how the truth may be;
 I say the tale as 'twas said to me. 
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Out of their saddles into the dirt--and thereby hangs a tale.
Out of their saddles into the dirt--and thereby hangs a tale.
This story will never go down.
This story will never go down.
 But that I am forbid
 To tell the secrets of my prison house,
  I could a tale read more 
 But that I am forbid
 To tell the secrets of my prison house,
  I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
   Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
    Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,
     Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
      And each particular hair to stand on end
       Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. 
A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
 With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which 
holdeth children from play, and old men read more 
 With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which 
holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.