The Chaunt of the Cockney Swell.
(Air—“This Life is all Chequer’d with Pleasures and Woes.”)
This suit is all chequer’d with crosses and stripes,
Which I wear as I walk by the wide winkley deep.
I am one of the tourist world’s toppingest types,
And I purchased these togs in Cheapside on the cheap.
So closely they fit to my elegant shape,
That the fall in my back every optic may see;
And, if you should take an Apollo and drape
Him in chocolate tweed, he would look much like me.