I'm a bit late for this clearly, but as I was searching for the words to "The Cricketer" I stumbled across this thread. These are the words as I know them, for anyone else who is looking for them:

Once I thought I'd like to be a cricketer,
So in the park I took a little stroll,
Saw a cricket match,
First one in me batch,
Thought I'd learn the proper way to bowl.

One fellow there he knew the way to bat a bit,
He hit one ball wonderfully high,
I could see it there,
Right up in the air,
Looked like sticking to the sky.

I stood under it, right above my head,
"Come away from underneath it!" everybody said,
But I knew how to catch it,
All about it I had read,
In a little penny book I'd bought,

Oh, my eyes shut, mouth open wide,
Talk about an earthquake,
I thought I could have died,
They'll never get it back again from out of my insides,
How's that? Well caught!!


If anyone knows the origins or author of this song, then please do let me know at pjlcarter(at)hotmail.com