Finnegans Wake Notes

045.01 Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty

045.02 How he fell with a roll and a rumble

045.03 And curled up like Lord Olofa Crumple

045.04 By the butt of the Magazine Wall,

045.05 (Chorus) Of the Magazine Wall,

045.06 Hump, helmet and all?

045.07

045.08 He was one time our King of the Castle

045.09 Now he's kicked about like a rotten old parsnip.

045.10 And from Green street he'll be sent by order of His Worship

045.11 To the penal jail of Mountjoy

045.12 (Chorus) To the jail of Mountjoy!

045.13 Jail him and joy.

045.14

045.15 He was fafafather of all schemes for to bother us

045.16 Slow coaches and immaculate contraceptives for the populace,

045.17 Mare's milk for the sick, seven dry Sundays a week,

045.18 Openair love and religion's reform,

045.19 (Chorus) And religious reform,

045.20 Hideous in form.

045.21

045.22 Arrah, why, says you, couldn't he manage it?

045.23 I'll go bail, my fine dairyman darling,

045.24 Like the bumping bull of the Cassidys

045.25 All your butter is in your horns.

045.26 (Chorus) His butter is in his horns.

045.27 Butter his horns!

045.28

045.29 (Repeat) Hurrah there, Hosty, frosty Hosty, change that shirt

045.30 [on ye,

045.31 Rhyme the rann, the king of all ranns!

045.32

045.33 Balbaccio, balbuccio!;

045.34 We had chaw chaw chops, chairs, chewing gum, the chicken-

045.35 [pox and china chambers

045.36 Universally provided by this soffsoaping salesman.