[
  {
    "title": "All in the Family Way",
    "author": "Thomas Moore",
    "lines": [
      "My banks are all furnished with rags,",
      "So thick, even Freddy can't thin 'em;",
      "I've torn up my old money-bags,",
      "Having little or nought to put in 'em.",
      "My tradesman are smashing by dozens,",
      "But this is all nothing, they say;",
      "For bankrupts, since Adam, are cousins,",
      "So, it's all in the family way.",
      "",
      "",
      "My Debt not a penny takes from me,",
      "As sages the matter explain; --",
      "Bob owes it to Tom and then Tommy",
      "Just owes it to Bob back again.",
      "Since all have thus taken to owing,",
      "There's nobody left that can pay;",
      "And this is the way to keep going, --",
      "All quite in the family way.",
      "",
      "",
      "My senators vote away millions,",
      "To put in Prosperity's budget;",
      "And though it were billions or trillions,",
      "The generous rogues wouldn't grudge it.",
      "'Tis all but a family hop,",
      "'Twas Pitt began dancing the hay;",
      "Hands round! -- why the deuce should we stop?",
      "'Tis all in the family way.",
      "",
      "",
      "My labourers used to eat mutton,",
      "As any great man of the State does;",
      "And now the poor devils are put on",
      "Small rations of tea and potatoes.",
      "But cheer up John, Sawney and Paddy,",
      "The King is your father, they say;",
      "So ev'n if you starve for your Daddy,",
      "'Tis all in the family way.",
      "",
      "",
      "My rich manufacturers tumble,",
      "My poor ones have nothing to chew;",
      "And, even if themselves do not grumble,",
      "Their stomachs undoubtedly do.",
      "But coolly to fast en famille,",
      "Is as good for the soul as to pray;",
      "And famine itself is genteel,",
      "When one starves in a family way.",
      "",
      "",
      "I have found out a secret for Freddy,",
      "A secret for next Budget day;",
      "Though, perhaps he may know it already,",
      "As he, too, 's a sage in his way.",
      "When next for the Treasury scene he",
      "Announces \"the Devil to pay\",",
      "Let him write on the bills, \"Nota bene,",
      "'Tis all in the family way.\""
    ],
    "linecount": "48"
  }
]