He said th'old mare had bit his dad.

He said there'd come a blazing screeching

Daft Bible-prophet chap a-preaching,

Had put th'old mare in such a taking

She'd thought the bloody earth was quaking.

And others come and spread a tale

Of cut-throats out of Gloucester jail,

And how we needed extra cops

With all them Welsh come picking hops;

With drunken Welsh in all our sheds