Mother Goose

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, lions too,
 Piccadilly Circus?
 Walked down by the bathing pond
 To try and catch some sun.
 Saw at least a hundred school girls
 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.
 And 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
 And 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.
 As I did walk by Hampstead Fair,
 I came upon Mother Goose,
 So I turned her loose--
 She was screaming.
 Walked down by the bathing pond
 To try and catch some sun.
 Must have been least a hundred school girls
 Sobbing into handkerchiefs as one.
 I don't believe they knew
 I was a schoolboy.