When I found him, my Lord,
He was robbing a barn;
He must live by thieving,
Since nothing he'll earn.
Says the SPARROW its false,
Both me and my wife,
Are as honest as ever
You was in your life.
A few grains of wheat
Lay at the barn door,
We pick'd them all up,
And did nothing more.
Says MAG that has nothing
To do with the matter,
I saw when you shot,
And began for to chatter.
I call'd DOCTOR PUSS
To examine the wound,
He knows what he saw,
And he'll tell, I'll be bound.
Says PUSS I'm a doctor,
So mind what I say,
I happen'd to pass on
The very same day.
I saw the poor Robin,
The Sparrow had shot.
He was quite dead and Cold,
So was not very hot.
Says the DOG I ran out
From my kennel adjacent,
Or I believe Doctor Puss
Would have eaten his patient.
However Cock Robin,
Was dead, I believe,
And that is the reason
That all of you grieve.
