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Artist(s)
  • Jethro Tull
  • Album(s)
  • Aqualung (buy)
  • 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.

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