The Bab Ballads, with Which Are Included Songs of a Savoyard

by W. S. Gilbert

Its truth in one remark you'll sum—

"Twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twum!"

Oh, Thomson Green was an auctioneer,

And made three hundred pounds a year;

And Harriet Hale, most strange to say,

Gave pianoforte lessons at a sovereign a day.

Oh, Thomson Green, I may remark,

Met Harriet Hale in Regent's Park,

Where he, in a casual kind of way,