He stands six feet two and he weighs sixteen stone;

His gait is majestic, his visage serene,

And his boots are the biggest that ever I’ve seen.

Fame sealed his renown with a definite stamp

When two German waiters escaped from a camp.

Unaided he captured those runaway Huns

Who had lived for a week on three halfpenny buns.

When a derelict porpoise was cast on the shore

Our village policeman was much to the fore;

He measured the beast from its tip to its tail,