THERE WAS AN OLD MAN- as sung by my grandfather

There was an old man and he had a tin can and it surely was a growler
?(or …. He had a tin can and he surely was a brawler)
He went into a saloon on a Sunday afternoon and you oughta heard the old man holler
“No booze today, no booze today, you can’t get a drink on Sunday!”
“No booze today, no booze today, you’ll have to come-a back on a Monday!”

She was the only girl I loved, she had a face like a horse and buggy.
There she stood on the street, Oh! Fireman save my child!!!
The Fireman up the ladder, the child was bigger than the fireman
Oh who will wind the clocks when I am gone? When I am gone..
Go get the ax, there’s a fly on baby’s leg! A boys best friend is his mommer.

She spanked him with a shingle to make his britches tingle!
Why did they build the shore so near the ocean?
Oh they took all the knots out of Grandpa’s wooden leg
And they dug up Willie’s grave to build a sewer.