Ah's bin to Cyrilla's knocking shop 'cause that's where Ah left me 'at.

It's been a hard day's night.



Ha ha! The next person will have to answer both.

..St Ives, I lost a set of Sheffield knives

...night - and now I really look a fright


"Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea, silver buckles at his knee"

He has hair that's made of brie, Bonny Bobby Shafto!



Pussycat, pussycat,
Where have you been?

I've been to bouncer school IM LEAN 'N' MEAN!!

You didn't add a new line so I have.

Anything you can do I can do better.

But dont think that I have a personal vendetta

Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high...

You stay up there, and I'll stay down here, 'cos we don't see eye to eye..

Our England is a garden

Nothing lays eggs like a speckled hen

Their heads were green and their hands were blue and they went to sea in a sieve.

The sieve keeled over on the coast of Dover and not one of them did live..

Fair moon to thee I sing

Pickled sardines: three in a tin

Faster than fairies, faster witches, bridges and houses, hedges and ditches,

Round the M25 without any hitches - tales of my speed will have you in stitches!

"The man in the moon came down too soon to ask the way to Norwich"

they sent him to Devon, via A307 and he ended up in Torridge

on a warm summer evening, on a train bound for nowhere, I met up with a gambler, we were both too tired to sleep

On a cold winter evening, in an old station cafe, he and I are still together with no money for our keep.

If you were the only girl in the world and I were the only boy.

we'd have to go on mating in the same old way





To get betimes in Boston town, I rose this morning early

I wore my new red dressing gown and bumped into Liz Hurley



How much is that doggie in the window ?

The price tag is to his collar pinned, oh


"Half a pound of tuppenny rice, half a pound of treacle"

the cook no longer wants any mice, instead she wants a beagle.

(i know that doesn't strictly rhyme, but what does rhyme with treacle?)

rock a bye baby on the tree top

Watch out for the birds and the things they will drop






The wind sprang up at four o'clock

I was glad I had pants on under my frock


There's an old mill by the stream, Nellie Dean

Where they eat dead cows with cream, Nellie Dean!


There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum [sic ], selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

~Wobby~

With many other elements which no-one's ever seenium
All bringing dreadful memories of lessons where I've beenium!

"Food, glorious food, we're anxious to try it"

But just a small slice,
Please, we're on a diet.....





Past three o'clock on a cold frosty morning

Those cakes are so tempting: to heck with the diet

Winter winds, they do blow cold

BAH!!!

And no chance for hours of seeing the dawn in


And make us wish hot cakes were sold


"Your tiny hand is frozen, let me warm it in my own"

The reason is really cannot stand to hear you moan!


It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring...

I'm playing my flute and he's finding it boring!

"With cat-like tread upon our way we steal"

We'll catch you unawares and make you squeal !


Speed bonny boat, like a bird on the wing, over the sea to Skye,

Carry the van and don't let it sink, because we don't want to die.



Never smile at a crocodile

Always glare, then run a mile


Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens

Don't open cat food tins whilst wearing mittens!


O for the wings, for the wings of a dove.

To carry me up to the heavens above.

"All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth"

tisn't much to ask for and I did say pleethe


mary mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow ?

Rick, Rick, oh so thick, from all the seeds I sow!

"What shall we do with a drunken sailor, early in the morning?"

Hooray, he's got surprises
In the pocket of his trousers
Hooray and up he rises
early in the morning







When Mr Pollinax visited the United States

He met lots of girls and asked them for dates...


Fair , fa', your honest sonsie face.
Great Chieftain o' the puddin' race.............

My bet was on the Spotted ####,
But the Jam Roly-poly came at a lick!

"Fairest isle, all isles excelling, seat of pleasure and of love"

edit: I hate these sensor things! How do people manage who actually have that name?!! And why do I always get the page turn?

Isle of Anglesey, where I'm dwelling. Don't forget to mark the date in your calendar for the 2008 forum meeting. See the notice pinned above.


OK it doesn't guite scan. !


There was a young man of St Bees,

Whose body was covered in fleas...

I woo'd her in the summer time, and in the winter too....

And when the weather turned real cold she made me Irish stew.

(I'm hearing an echo of Rambling Syd somewhere !)

When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire

I woo'd a busty fair young maid behind the cattle byre....


Fight the good fight , with all thy might.....

Struggling into jeans that are far too tight..

A wandering minstrel I...

It's my hose that scratches





Pease pudding hot, pease pudding cold

Please puttit in the bin, nine days old !

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper...

Peters partner Pauline pinched a pumpkin from the pedler..

Three little maids from school are we

No, it's the OLTVA lot, after a cup o' tea


She keeps Moet et Chandon in a pretty cabinet

And drinks it in the evening when her hair is in a net.


There was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile

He had a crooked nose which made his crooked smile

Wednesday morning at 5 O'clock when the day begins...

We're woken by the refuse men, emptying the bins


baa baa black sheep, have you any wool ?

No, I haven't


In Dublins fair city, where the girls are so pretty..

The men not so handsome: at least they are witty

Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream