There Was an Old Man with a Gong
Edward Lear
1812 to 1888
There was an Old Man with a gong,
Who bumped at it all the day long;
But they called out, 'O law! you're a horrid old bore!'
So they smashed that Old Man with a gong.
Edward Lear's There Was an Old Man with a Gong
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