On the tram and the train, on the 'bus and the boat,
You will hear it, both going and coming;
In the pub and the club and ashore and afloat --
A perpetual humming and strumming!
From the ponderous personage, proud in his prime,
To the little kids grouped in the gutter,
They are muttering over a doggerel rhyme,
And this is the matter they mutter:
"There was a young man of Junee,
Who went, in a basin, to sea;
The basin was broken,
And, by the same token...."
Ta-rumtiddy, dumtiddy, dee!
First published in The Bulletin, 26 December 1907
