A Song About Myself + 

There was a naughty Boy, + 

A naughty boy was he, + 

He would not stop at home, + 

He could not quiet be⁠— + 

He took + 

In his Knapsack + 

A Book + 

Full of vowels; + 

And a shirt + 

With some towels⁠— + 

A slight cap + 

For night cap⁠— + 

A hair brush, + 

Comb ditto, + 

New Stockings, + 

For old ones + 

Would split O! + 

This Knapsack, + 

Tight at ’s back, + 

He rivetted close + 

And follow’d his Nose + 

To the North, + 

To the North, + 

And follow’d his nose + 

To the North. + 

There was a naughty boy + 

And a naughty boy was he, + 

For nothing would he do + 

But scribble poetry⁠— + 

He took + 

An inkstand + 

In his hand, + 

And a Pen + 

Big as ten + 

In the other, + 

And away + 

In a Pother + 

He ran + 

To the mountains, + 

And fountains + 

And ghostes, + 

And Postes, + 

And witches, + 

And ditches, + 

And wrote + 

In his coat, + 

When the weather + 

Was cool, + 

Fear of gout, + 

And without + 

When the weather + 

Was warm⁠— + 

Och the charm + 

When we choose + 

To follow one’s nose + 

To the north, + 

To the north, + 

To follow one’s nose + 

To the north. + 

There was a naughty boy + 

And a naughty boy was he, + 

He kept little fishes + 

In washing tubs three + 

In spite + 

Of the might + 

Of the Maid, + 

Nor afraid + 

Of his Granny⁠—good⁠— + 

He often would, + 

Hurly burly, + 

Get up early, + 

And go + 

By hook or crook + 

To the brook, + 

And bring home + 

Miller’s thumb, + 

Tittlebat + 

Not over fat, + 

Minnows small + 

As the stall + 

Of a glove, + 

Not above + 

The size + 

Of a nice + 

Little Baby’s + 

Little fingers⁠— + 

O, he made, + 

’Twas his trade, + 

Of Fish a pretty Kettle + 

A Kettle⁠— + 

A Kettle + 

Of Fish, a pretty Kettle, + 

A Kettle! + 

There was a naughty Boy, + 

And a naughty Boy was he, + 

He ran away to Scotland + 

The people for to see⁠— + 

Then he found + 

That the ground + 

Was as hard, + 

That a yard + 

Was as long, + 

That a song + 

Was as merry, + 

That a cherry + 

Was as red⁠— + 

That lead + 

Was as weighty, + 

That fourscore + 

Was as eighty, + 

That a door + 

Was as wooden + 

As in England⁠— + 

So he stood in his shoes + 

And he wonder’d, + 

He wonder’d, + 

He stood in his shoes + 

And he wonder’d. + 