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As i did walk by hampstead fair |
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I came upon mother goose -- so i turned her loose -- |
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She was screaming. |
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And a foreign student said to me -- |
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Was it really true there are elephants and lions too |
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In piccadilly circus? |
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Walked down by the bathing pond |
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To try and catch some sun. |
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Saw at least a hundred schoolgirls sobbing |
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Into hankerchiefs as one. |
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I don't believe they knew |
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I was a schoolboy. |
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And a bearded lady said to me -- |
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If you start your raving and your misbehaving -- |
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You'll be sorry. |
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Then the chicken-fancier came to play -- |
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With his long red beard (and his sister's weird: |
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She drives a lorry). |
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Laughed down by the putting green -- |
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I popped `em in their holes. |
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Four and twenty labourers were labouring -- |
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Digging up their gold. |
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I don't believe they knew |
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That i was long john silver. |
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Saw johnny scarecrow make his rounds |
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In his jet-black mac (which he won't give back) -- |
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Stole it from a snow man. |
