Song/verse that my grandfather used

Subject: RE: Song/verse that my grandfather used
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 19 Aug 22 - 03:00 PM

Janet, when was he singing his song to you?

Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel so he would have been 58.
One of the songs\poems was

Dear Friends, We Surely All Agree

Dear friends, we surely all agree
There’s almost nothing worse to see
Than some repulsive little bum
Who’s always chewing chewing gum.
(It’s very near as bad as those
Who sit around and pick the nose).
So please believe us when we say
That chewing gum will never pay;
This sticky habit’s bound to send
The chewer to a sticky end.


,,, more : https://www.poeticous.com/roald-dahl/dear-friends-we-surely-all-agree

Subject: RE: Song/verse that my grandfather used
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 19 Aug 22 - 10:30 AM

Could be several things. Where was he from?

Hallelujah I'm a bum

Yum, yum, chewing gum (rather rude)

Subject: Song/verse that my grandfather used
From: GUEST,Janet
Date: 19 Aug 22 - 10:12 AM

My grandfather, born in 1906, used to sing us a song or quote a verse about a little bum (a person not a body part) and chewing gum. I can't remember it all. Can anyone help?