Escrita por Ian Anderson, foi gravada entre dezembro de 1970 e fevereiro de 1971 e lançada em 19 de março de 1971 no disco Aqualung.
Ian Anderson cantou, fez backing vocals, tocou violão e percussão. Martin Barre tocou violão e guitarra base e fez percussão. Jeffrey Hammond fez backing vocals. Clive Bunker tocou percussão e John Evan tocou Mellotron.
A letra:
As
I did walk by Hampstead Fair
I came upon Mother Goose
So I
turned her loose
She was screaming
And a foreign student said
to me
Was it really true there elephants and lions too in
Picadilly Circus?
Walked down by the
bathing pond to try and catch some sun
Saw at least a hundred
schoolgirls sobbing into handkerchiefs as one
I don't believe they
knew I was a schoolboy
And a bearded lady said
to me
If you start your raving, and your misbehaving
You'll be
sorry
Then the chicken-fancier came to play
With his long red
beard and his sister's weird, she drives a lorry
Laughed down by the
putting green
I popped 'em in their holes
Four and twenty
laborers were laboring
And digging up their gold
I don't
believe they knew that I was Long John Silver
Saw Johnny Scarecrow
make his rounds in his jet-black 'mac
Which he won't give
back
Stole it from a snowman
As I did walk by
Hampstead Fair
I came upon Mother Goose
So I turned her
loose
But she was screaming
Walked down by the
bathing pond to try and catch some sun
Must of been at least a
hundred schoolgirls sobbing into handkerchiefs as one
I don't
believe they knew I was a schoolboy
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