When I was A Bachelor Nursery Rhyme lyrics, origins and history When I was a bachelor I lived by myself, And all the meat I got I put upon a shelf; The rats and mice did lead me such a life That I went to London to get myself a wife.
The streets were so broad and the lanes were so narrow, I could not get my wife home without a wheel-barrow; The wheel-barrow broke, my wife got a fall, Down tumbled wheel-barrow, little wife, and all. When I was A Bachelor Nursery Rhyme lyrics, origins and history |