The sun lay thick upon the ground, the snow shone in the sky. The flowers were singing gaily, the birds were full of bloom; I went upstairs to the cellar, to clean a downstairs room. I saw ten thousand miles away a house just out of sight, It stood alone between two more and it was black-washed white.
Two dead boys got up to fight, Back to back they faced each other, Drew their swords and shot each other, One was blind and the other couldn't, see So they chose a dummy for a referee.
A blind man went to see fair play, A dumb man went to shout "hooray!" A paralysed donkey passing by, Kicked the blind man in the eye, Knocked him through a nine inch wall, Into a dry ditch and drowned them all,
A deaf policeman heard the noise, And came to arrest the two dead boys, If you don't believe this story’s true, Ask the blind man he saw it too!