And all the bread and cheese I got I put upon the shelf.

The rats and the mice they made such a strife,

I was forced to go to London to buy me a wife.

The roads were so bad, and the lanes were so narrow,

I was forced to bring my wife home in a wheel-barrow.

The wheel-barrow broke, and my wife had a fall,

Down came wheel-barrow, wife, and all.

You shall have an apple,

You shall have a plum,

You shall have a rattle-basket,