When I Was a Bachelor Lyrics

When I was a little boy I lived by myself,

And all the bread and cheese I got I put upon a shelf;

The rats and the mice, they made such a strife,

I was forced to go to London to buy me a wife.

The streets were so broad and the lanes were so narrow,

I was forced to bring my wife home in a wheelbarrow;

The wheelbarrow broke and my wife had a fall,

And down came the wheelbarrow, wife and all.