My mum used to recite this when asked to do a 'turn'. Don't know where it came from, but someone could easily put a tune to it. Little Thomas was a glutton He ate four times beef and mutton Then undid his waistcoat button And consumed plum duff. He was told 'You won't get thinner If you will eat so much dinner And then finally some inner Part of you will bust!' He cried out 'What does it matter Even if I do get fatter? Put more pudding on my platter Let it do it's wust!' Then one day, and little wonder There was a report like thunder. Doors and windows blew asunder And the cat had fits. His old nurse cried out, much disgusted 'Drat that boy, he's gone and busted Just when I had swept and dusted Leaving such a mess.' Then the painful task of peeling Thomas from the walls and ceiling Gave the family a feeling Of sincere distress. Any sorrowing relation When asked for an explanation Of the awful detonation Was obliged to say. 'Russians have not been to bomb us It was only Little Thomas Who, alas departed from us In that noisy way.'
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