The tune is even more ridiculous than the words, and the repetition in each stanza is positively ludicrous.
Next in our esteem was a comic hunting song, of which I recall these stanzas:
They hunted and they hollered,
And the first thing they did find
Was a frog in the marshes,
And that they left behind.
Look a-there, now! Look a-there!
Some said it was a frog,
And some said nay;
Some said it was a bird