Here's my transcription, unfortunately incomplete. Let's see if someone else can supply the missing/incorrect words:


HOLMES AND WATSON
As recorded by Mick Ryan and Peter Harris on "The Long Road" (2001)

1. Back in the eighteen nineties in London's Baker Street,
There lived a great detective who never could be beat.
He had a most phenomenal brain, and criminals lived in dread
After studying bolts of intellect which flashed inside his head.

CHORUS: "Oh, how do you do it, Holmes?" "Elementary, my dear Watson.
I ?(?) criminal mind, provided it's got spots on.
Crimes that trouble(?) lesser men and leave a shroud(?) at sea
To my deductive intellect are elementary."

2. One winter's night in Baker Street, sitting by the fire,
Watson did the crossword and of Holmes he did inquire:
"One across is hard," he said; "the same as a French resort."
" 'A la Monterrey(?),' dear chap," was? quick retort.

3. The great man's friend was much impressed and gave another clue:
"This one's a stinker," Watson said; "Let's see what you can do.
'Must be(?) digest his waterway;'--that makes no sense to me."
"The answer's simple, Watson; it is 'alimentary.' " (canal!)

4. While Watson stayed at Baskerville, Holmes was in disguise,
But revealed himself upon the moor to Watson's great surprise.
"The hound's abroad," the great man said above the wind and storm.
"It's ?(?) flesh upon the beach at ?.(?)"

5. On the trail of Moriarty, Watson one day found
Holmes just like an Indian scout lying on the ground.
"He's heading for the continent by the road to Dover.
I know this to be true because his carriage run me over."

6. With Moriarty cornered at the Reichenbach Falls,
At last the great detective had him by the short curlies.
Moriarty dragged his rival into the abyss,
But Holmes he made a comeback; it was a piece of dung(?).