Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book/Little Boy liv'd by himself

by Nurse Lovechild

For other versions of this work, see When I Was a Bachelor.

Little Boy liv'd by himself.

 

 

When I was a little boy,
I liv'd by my self,
And all the Bread
And Cheese I got,
⟨I⟩ hid upon my shelf.

⟨The⟩ Rats, and the Mice
⟨They⟩ made such a strife
I was forc'd to go to
London, to buy me a Wife

The Streets where so
Broad, and the Lanes
Where so narrow,
I was forc'd to bri⟨ng⟩
My Wife home,
In a Wheelbarro⟨w⟩

The Wheelbarrow br⟨oke⟩
And give my Wife a fall,
The duce take
Wheelbarrow, Wife & all.