When I Was a Bachelor
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"When I Was a Bachelor" is an English nursery rhyme.[1]
Lyrics
[edit]One of the most commonly used modern versions of the rhyme is:
When I was a bachelor I lived by myself,
And all the bread and cheese I got I laid upon the shelf;
The rats and the mice, they made such a strife,
I had to go to London to buy me a wife.
The streets were so bad 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;
Down came wheelbarrow, little wife and all.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Richard Scarry, Richard Scarry's Best Mother goose Ever (Western Publishing Company Inc., 1970), pp. 10-11.
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