When I Was a Bachelor

WHEN I was a bachelor I lived by myself,
And all the meat I got I put upon a shelf ;
The rats and the 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 sonarrow,
I could not get my wife home without a wheelbarrow ;
The wheelbarrow broke, my wife got a fall,
Down tumbled wheelbarrow, little wife, and all.