There was a fat man of Bombay
This old nursery rhyme is called “There was a fat man of Bombay” — enjoy your reading!
“There was a fat man of Bombay,
Who was smoking one sunshiny day,
When a bird, called a snipe,
Flew away with his pipe,
Which vex'd the fat man of Bombay.”
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