Naturally, it depends …
But here’s something that is both beautiful and witty. I found it crisp and very musically delivered by Jethro Tull …
“Mother Goose”
As I did walk by Hampstead Fair
I came upon Mother Goose —
so I turned her loose —
she was screaming.
And a foreign student said to me —
was it really true
there are elephants and lions too
in Piccadilly Circus ?
Walked down by the bathing pond
to try and catch some sun.
Saw at least a hundred schoolgirls sobbing
into hankerchiefs as one.
I don’t believe they knew
I was a schoolboy.
And a bearded lady said to me —
if you start your raving
and your misbehaving
— you’ll be sorry.
Then the chicken-fancier came to play —
with his long red beard
(and his sister’s weird : she drives a lorry).
Laughed down by the putting green —
I popped `em in their holes.
Four and twenty labourers were labouring —
digging up their gold.
I don’t believe they knew
that I was Long John Silver.
Saw Johnny Scarecrow make his rounds
in his jet-black mac
(which he won’t give back) —
stole it from a snow man.
