Song lyrics downloaded from: https://www.albumsongandlyrics.com ------------------------------------------ Jethro Tull - Mother Goose ------------------------------------------ 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 elephants and lions too in picadilly circus? Walked down by the bathing pond to try and catch some sun. saw at least a hundred schoolgirls sobbing into handkerchiefs as one. i dont believe they knew i was a schoolboy. And a bearded lady said to me - if you start your raving, and your misbehaving - youll be sorry. then the chicken-fancier came to play - with his long red beard (and his sisters weird: she drivs a lorry). Laughed down by the putting green - i popped em in their holes. four and twenty labourers were labouring - digging up their gold. i dont believe they knew that i was long john silver. Saw johnny scarecrow make his rounds in his jet-black mac (which he wont give back) - stole it from a snowman.