My father was a great music hall buff and knew all the words to some of the funniest songs. Has anyone out there ever heard of the following song and do they know who sang it and/or wrote it?:

'There once was a man and he was an encyclopeadia.
He could tell you how many stars in the sky and the height of every star.
He'd stand on a slope with a big telecope and stare at Venus hard, till all the stars in the gurdy Mars complained to Scotland Yard for...


Chorus;
:... he knew all about emology, hebrew, shebru, jujuology, sintax, tintax, hobnail-boot tax, he was full as a Pickford's Van.
Those who quacked and quacked out medicine, swore his jaw was more than Edison, simply because, people said he was, Dan, Dan, the scientific man.

He'd a nose like a parrot and the colour of a carrot and a Roman walked on top.
He'd a long white neck like an old hen-peck and a face like a fried- fish shop.
He used to say that the milky way was cows from the Isle of Wight.
He'd analyse frogs from the Isle of Dogs and set the Thames alight. for...

Repeat chorus:...'

Thankyou.