As I did walk by Hampstead Fair I came upon Mother Goose So I turned her loose She was screaming
And a foreign student said to me Was it really true There are elephants and lions too In Picadilly Circus? ♪ Walked down by the bathing pond To try and catch some sun Saw at least a hundred schoolgirls Sobbing into handkerchiefs as one I don't believe they knew I was a schoolboy ♪ And a bearded lady said to me If you start your raving And your misbehaving You'll be sorry
Then the chicken-fancier came to play With his long red beard And his sister's weird She drives a lorry ♪ Laughed down by the putting green I popped 'em in their holes Four and twenty labourers were labouring Digging up their gold I don't believe they knew That I was Long John Silver ♪ Saw Johnny Scarecrow make his rounds In his jet-black mac Which he won't give back Stole it from a snowman