A
As I did walk by Hampstead Fair
C D C D
I came upon Mother Goose – so I turned her loose
A A7
she was screaming.
C
And a foreign student said to me
D C D
was it really true there are elephants and lions too
A A7
in Piccadilly Circus?
D D/Cis
Walked down by the bathing pond
D/H D A
to try and catch some sun.
D D/Cis
Saw at least a hundred schoolgirls sobbing
D/H D A
into hankerchiefs as one.
C
I don't believe they knew
A A7
I was a schoolboy.
A
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).
D
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 snow man.
