Mother Goose Lyrics - Aqualung - Jethro Tull

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, lions too 

In Piccadilly Circus? 

Walked down by the bathing pond 

To try and catch some sun. 

Saw at least a hundred school girls 

Sobbing into handkerchiefs as one. 

I don't believe they knew 

I was a schoolboy. 

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And the bearded lady said to me 

If you start your raving 

And your misbehaving 

You'll be sorry. 

And 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 

And digging up their gold. 

I don't believe they knew 

That I was Long John Silver. 

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Saw Johnny Scarecrow make his rounds 

In his jet black mac 

Which he won't give back-- 

He stole it from a snowman. 

As I did walk by Hampstead Fair 

I came upon Mother Goose 

So I turned her loose-- 

She was screaming. 

Walked down by the bathing pond 

To try and catch some sun. 

Must have been least a hundred school girls 

Sobbing into handkerchiefs as one. 

I don't believe they knew 

I was a schoolboy.