Augustus was a chubby lad Great fat ruddy cheeks Augustus had He always did as he was told And he never let his soup get cold So everybody saw they saw with joy The hale and hearty healthy boy But then one day one sad fateful day He cried out take that nasty soup away The second day comes the picture shows How weak and thin Augustus grows But when the soup is put on the table He cries out loud as he is able The third day comes oh what a sin Augustus grows so pale and thin Yet though he grows so weak and ill He cries out cries out cries out still Take that nasty soup away I don’t want any soup today The fourth day comes the fourth day comes And he scarcely weighs a sugar plum He’s like a little bit of thread And on the fifth day the fifth day the fifth day He was dead