Mother Goose lyrics

Song information

Artist: Jethro Tull
Album: Aqualung

Lyrics

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