Ah, ha! my good friend! - Don't you wish you may get it? |
And a nice little boy had a nice cake of soap, / Worthy of washing the hands of the Pope. |
And six little singing-boys, - dear little souls! / In nice clean faces, and nice white stoles. |
And then he hitched his trousers up, as is, I'm told, their use, / - It's very odd that Sailor-men should wear those things so loose. |
But when the Crier cried, `O Yes!' the people cried, `O No!' |
He had no little handkerchief to wipe his little nose. |
He would pore by the hour, o'er a weed or a flower, / Or the slugs that come crawling out after a shower. |
Never was heard such a terrible curse ! ! / But what gave rise / To no little surprise, / Nobody seemed one penny the worse! |
She drank prussic acid without any water,/ And died like a Duke-and-a-Duchess's daughter! |
The Lady Jane was tall and slim, / The Lady Jane was fair. |
The Lady Jane was tall and slim, / The Lady Jane was fair. |
They were a little less than `kin', and rather more than `kind'. |
Why, Captain! - my Lord! - Here's the devil to pay! / The fellow's been cut down and taken away! / What's to be done? / We've missed all the fun! - / Why, they'll laugh at and quiz us all over the town, / We are all of us done so uncommonly brown! |