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When I was A Bachelor


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When I was A Bachelor
Nursery Rhyme lyrics, origins and history

When I was a bachelor I lived by myself,
And all the meat I got I put upon a shelf;
The rats and mice did lead me such a life
That I went to London to get myself a wife.

The streets were so broad and the lanes were so narrow,
I could not get my wife home without a wheel-barrow;
The wheel-barrow broke, my wife got a fall,
Down tumbled wheel-barrow, little wife, and all.

When I was A Bachelor
Nursery Rhyme lyrics, origins and history

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