When constabulary duty's to be done:

Ah, take one consideration with another,

A policeman's lot is not a happy one!

When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling,

When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime,

He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling,

And listen to the merry village chime.

When the coster's finished jumping on his mother,

He loves to lie a-basking in the sun:

Ah, take one consideration with another,