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Now this is the ballad of Jeremy Jones	A
And likewise of Bobadil Brown	B
Of the Snooks and the Snaggers and Macs and Malones	A
And Diggle and Daggle and Down	B
In fact 'tis a song of a fatuous throng	C
Which embraces 'the man in the street '	D
And the bloke on the 'bus and a crowd more of us	A
And a lot of the people we meet	E
	-
Yes this is the story of Jack and of Jill	F
Whose surnames are Snawley or Smith	G
And of Public Opinion and National Will	F
And samples of Popular Myth	G
For Jeremy Jones as a very small boy	H
Was encouraged to struggle for pelf	I
And to strive very hard in his own little yard	J
But never to think for himself	I
	-
Then Hi diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle	K
Come sing us a nursery rhyme	L
For in spite of our whiskers we elderly friskers	A
Are kiddes the most of our time	L
So this is the song of the juvenile throng	C
And its aunts and its big brother Bill	F
Its uncles and cousins and sisters in dozens	A
Louisa and 'Liza and Lill	F
	-
Now Jeremy Jones was exceedingly 'loyal '	-
And when any procession went by	M
He'd cheer very loud with the rest of the crowd	N
Though he honestly couldn't tell why	M
He was taught that his 'rulers' toiled hard for his sake	O
And promoted the 'general good'	N
That to meddle with 'customs' was quite a mistake	O
And Jones didn't see why he should	N
	-
To gird at the 'Order of Things as they Are '	-
He was told was the act of a fool	P
He was taught in effect to regard with respect	N
Ev'ry' 'Precedent ' 'Practice' and 'Rule '	-
And if we deserted the 'Usual Plan'	B
He believed that the nation would fall	Q
So Jones became known as a 'right thinking man '	-
Which meant that he didn't at all	Q
	-
Oh Little Miss Muffett she sat on a tuffet	N
But fled from a spider in fright	N
For no one haa told her that if she was bolder	R
She might have asserted her right	N
Ho rub a dub dub three men in a tub	S
On a sea of political doubt	N
And they argue together concerning the weather	R
But never attempt to get out	N
	-
They made him a grocer when Jerry left school	P
And a very good grocer was he	T
And a dunce he was not for he knew quite a lot	N
Of such matters as treacle and tea	T
But the making of nations and things so immense	A
He considered beyond his control	U
He was busy on week days at saving his pence	A
And on Sundays at saving his soul	U
	-
But politics Jones did not wholly neglect	N
He subscribed to a paper THE SAGE	V
And every morn with becoming respect	N
He scanned its political page	V
He believed what was said in each leader he read	N
For a 'right thinking person' was he	T
Who was shocked at their vices who growled of the prices	A
Of Sugar or treacle or tea	T
	-
Oh Little Jack Horner sits in a corner	R
A look of delight in his eye	M
At the sight of a plum on the end of his thumb	W
While there's somebody sneaking his pie	M
Then ride a cook hoss to Banbury Cross	A
Though the Lord only knows why we do	N
But there's precedent for it and those who ignore it	N
We class as an ignorant crew	N
	-
So Jeremy Jones he meanders through life	I
Behaving as Grandmother bids	A
And so do his very respectable wife	I
And extremely conventional kids	A
Their bosses can trust 'em for habit and custom	W
They've learnt in the regular school	P
And they call him 'right thinking ' while privately winking	X
And setting him down as a fool	P
	-
Convention's his master he vows that disaster	R
Will swiftly encompass its foes	A
He thinks Evolution a Labor delusion	B
And 'Progress' a 'something' that grows	A
He's one of the many a credulous zany	T
The leadable bleedable type	Y
Who looks upon 'Time' instructed by Granny	T
As something that rarely is ripe	Y
	-
Oh Goosey goose gander where do you wander	R
Only kind sir where I'm told	N
For my master has said I must go where I'm led	N
And to contradict him would be bold	N
And Little Bo peep she lost her sheep	Z
It's the Socialist's fault she'll insist	N
But leave her to grieve for she'll never believe	I
That a Meat Trust could ever exist	N
	-
Then this is the ballad of elderly kids	A
Of Jeremy Jones and his kind	N
Of Bobadil Brown and Daggle and Down	B
And the crowd with the juvenile mind	N
Oh this is a song of the National Will	F
Of the Snooks and the Snaggers and Smiths	A
Their aunts and their cousins and big brother Bill	F
Convention and Popular Myths	A
	-
A sad little song of the fatuous throng	C
A string of sedate little rhymes	A
Concerning the crowd who consider it wrong	C
To collide with the 'trend of the times '	-
A song about Us who are missing the 'bus	A
While we trifle and toy with pretence	A
For we play very hard in our own little yard	N
But we seldom look over the fence	A
	-
Then Hi diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle	K
We're never concerned with the cause	A
Let's giggle and sinf for the Trust and the Ring	X
Are really our old Santa Claus	A
Effects may surprise us but Granny'll advise us	A
We'll never behave as she bids	A
Ho grocers and drapres let's stick to the papers	A
We're all of us elderly kids	A

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

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