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 Piccadilly Circus?
Walked down by the bathing pond
to try and catch some sun
Saw at least a hundred schoolgirls sobbing
into hankerchiefs 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 snow man