"... My parents approached Mrs. Nelson [to baby-sit me],
Our dear old next-door neighbour,
Who'd never [baby-]sat, but longed to have a try;

I tossed her umb-erella like a caber!
Mrs. Nelson can't go sitting with one eye ... "


by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann ,
before At the Drop of a Hat,
1950's West End Revue songwriting