There was a Fat Man of Bombay
Denslow's Mother Goose. William Wallace Denslow. 1901.
There was a fat man of Bombay,
Who was smoking one sunshiny day,
When a bird called a snipe,
Flew away with his pipe,
Which vexed the fat man of Bombay.
The Nursery Rhymes of England. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps. 1886.
There was a fat man of Bombay,
Who was smoking one sunshiny day,
When a bird, called a snipe,
Flew away with his pipe,
Which vex'd the fat man of Bombay.
Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes. Walter Crane. 1877.
There was a fat man of Bombay,
Who was smoking one sunshiny day,
When a bird called a Snipe flew away with his pipe,
Which vexed the fat man of Bombay.
The Real Mother Goose. Blanche Fisher Wright. 1916.
There was a fat man of Bombay,
Who was smoking one sunshiny day;
When a bird called a snipe
Flew away with his pipe,
Which vexed the fat man of Bombay
Tags - Tales - India - Bombay - Pipe - Animal - Bird - Snipe - Tobacco - Smoking -
Origin - Europe - British Isles -