Mother Goose - Jethro Tull

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 elephants and lions too in Picadilly Circus

Walked down by the bathing

Pond to try and catch some sun

Saw at least a hundred schoolgirls

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 then the chicken fancier came to play

With his long red beard

And his sister's weird:

She drivs 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 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 be at least a hundred schoolgirls

Sobbing into handkerchiefs as one

I don't believe they knew I was a schoolboy