Ring-around-a-rosy Rag Lyrics - Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie

I had a friend, a friend I could trust 

He went into the park and got busted 

Doin' the ring-a-round-a-rosy rag 

Went in the park late at night 

And he put a lot of people over eighty up tight 

He was doin' the ring-a-round-a-rosy rag 

Ring around, ring around rose 

Touch your nose and blow your toes and mind 

Doin' the ring-around-a-rosy rag 

Ring around, ring-around-a-rose 

Touch your nose and blow your toes and mind 

Doin' the ring-around-a-rosy rag 

We ought to send Officer Joe Strange 

To some Australian mountain range 

So we all can do the ring-around-a-rosy rag 

Would you like to put Philadelphia up tight 

One mass ring-around-a-rosy, in the middle of the night? 

Yes we all should do the ring-around-a-rosy rag 

Ring around, ring around rose 

Touch your nose and blow your toes and mind 

Doin' the ring-around-a-rosy rag 

And it really was a drag 

I said, "Ring around, ring-around-a-rose 

Touch your nose and blow your toes and mind 

Doin' the ring-around-a-rosy "