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 -