East side, West Side, all around the town,
The bums sing ring-around-rosie, London Bridge is falling down
Some of them are sober, while others can't see where they walk
And they bounce their heads every evening
on the sidewalks of New York

That's all I recall of an old 78 that we used to have, handed down from someone, with this rewrite of a kids song. The singer? I've a feeling he might have been called Bowery Bill or something like that, and it would have been recorded I imagine sometime in the late 20s.

Does it ring a bell with anyone? Any more words? Any more songs or details? I believe there were a sort of vogue for these "singing bums" and "singing hoboes" - but my impression is generally they'd have been rural, and this one is very urbam.