They don’t catch me often, my father was a physician,

And before he died, he made it his mission

To post me and make me wise on this score.

I have sometimes felt peevish and sore

Because father was too honest to lay up a store

For me to spend when I life began;

My father was above all an honest man.

Once my wife took pneumonic cough

And we for a doctor sent right off.

He came and found genuine bacilli.