With bags full of elvers: perhaps that’s why
We all love Lent,
Lean mean Lent,
Fishy old Lent,
When the elvers fry.
When elvers fry for breakfast with egg chopped small
And bacon from the side that’s hung upon the wall.
When the dish is on the table how the children shout
“O, what funny fish,
Wormy squirmy fish,