Wellies on his feet, gloves on his hands, and is also very fat


The wind was a ghostly galleon, tossed upon cloudy seas,.....

the devil jumped onto his stalleon, when goodness began to wheeze.

when i was one-and-twenty i heard a wise man say,

come your next birthday, son, you'll be two-and twenty, ay?


Jerusalem, Jerusalem, lift up your gates and sing..

Lalalalalala these gates are too heavy to fling!


Do you remember an inn Miranda?

And the tedding and the spreading of the stars for a bedding,
And the fleas that tease in the High Pyrenees.


Ying Tong Ying Tong Ying Tong Ying Tong tiddle I fo ...

Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong is a good place to go!

May auld acquaintance be forgot...

Oops I posted the correct words on this one by mistake, I was playing the wrong game !

Anyway I continue:-


And always a kiss to find.......


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

Lead with thy left and punch with thy right.

"Near or far, wherever you are" (OK, so I admit I watch Titanic!)

You will always be able to reach me on my mobile phone.

Tyger, tyger, burning bright, in the forests of the night...

try i may and try i might, my nightmare ends at your first bite.

little lamb who made thee?

Dost thou know about bio-lo-gy?

The long and winding road

Should be short and straight but I'm tipsy....

Do not stand at my grave and weep...

You're alive, so dance and leap

"When the red, red robin comes bob bob bobbing along"

The undertaker got the coffins confused, I'm actually in the one labelled 'L. Swinsdale'.

Three blind mice, three blind mice.

There's really no need to say it twice

(I said there's really no need to say it twice)




I met a traveller from an antique land

His said his name was David, and he offered a bronzed hand


Is there anybody going to listen to my story?

Of why I should resign from being a Tory.


Come into the garden, Maud.

I'm arresting you for theft and fraud



Jingle bells, jingle bells,

If you jingle them once more I'll throw you in the cells



When I am an old woman I shall wear purple

Purple suits you well already!!

If you're happy and you know it

then you really ought to stow it.

old meg she was a gypsy; and lived upon the moors

She played the ukulele, and she fed on hips and haws


Ev'ry time we say goodbye I die a little

There won't be much of me left for my acquittal.


God save our gracious queen

So she can eat the bean.....





Hickory Dickory Dock, the mouse when up the clock .......

Cos that's where it hid its money
'Twas safer then Northern rock.

Now the holly bears a berry

Whilst the prunus wears a cherry

And it's too early for Christmas stuff IMO!!!

"The minstrel boy to the war has gone"

A Chieftain tank for to ride upon.....


See me dance the polka, said Mr Wagg like a bear,... (Edith Sitwell in Facade)

He spun around - then landed on his London derriere

(Knew I could sneak some music in there somewhere!)

"There'll always be an England, and England shall be free"

From folks who think it quite ok to vote for BNP!



Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.

Mum was so pleased she gave Jill sweets she'd fortunately bought her.

"Mary, Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow?"

with miniature hells and little death-knells and nowhere at all to go.

the king sits in dumfermline towne/drinking the blood-red wine;

He thought it very odd as he had planted a Chardonnay vine!



Drink to me only with thine eyes.

And dont tell me a pack of lies

Four and twenty virgins came down from Inverness...

The group returned from Edinburgh eighteen virgins the less!

(Hope that isn't too risque, but I blame fsharpminor! Petrat, I love your ending! )


Mr Knox keeps his socks in a bright pink chocolate box

Since his sox in the box might harbour germs of the pox.


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

Thump with the left, and bash with the right..


On either side the river lie long fields of barley and of rye..

...a witch's curse makes Lady fry; naught left but shallot-chicken pie.



The Sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might...

Illuminating every bay around the Isle of Wight.


"Baa baa, black sheep; have you any wool?"

No sir no sir, only the horns of a bull

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe....

The sole survivor of the Eyelet Crew


Little Boy Blue, come blow up your horn

But only between the hours of 9am and 5pm or we'll confiscate it and clobber you with an ASBO. And don't think you can play it at weekends either. And get those sheep out of here. NOW.



When icicles hang by the wall

Hmmm - doesn't quite scan, but surely still qualifies for the most apt second line so far!

And inglenooks begin to call


"Oliver, Oliver, never before has a boy wanted more"

But the terse reply was to show him the door.


Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun...

If only someone could think of a lovely rhyming pun...
Possibly something to do with a nun...
Or if not then perhaps fun or run or gun...

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One man went to mow, went to mow a meadow

He fell off his tractor so now is deadow,.............

She'll be coming round the mountains when she comes...

With her forty year old twins who suck their thumbs..

There is a tavern in the town

'til the developers pull it down, pull it down...



Pale hands I loved

Wash up when rubber gloved.


I am thinking tonight of the old rustic bridge.

As I stuff myself silly with food from the fridge.

"Wheer as ta bin sin ah saw thee on Ilkla Moor baht 'at?"

I'm sorry? What? Can you provide a translation of that?

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As I was going to St Ives