there was an old lady she lived in a shoe she got a whole lot of kids you can't miss em when you's coming through cause she be shacked up with little boy blue but half them kid's ain't seen their pops since like 1982 but down the street next to the swap meet that's the spot where the 3 little pigs yo they be catching beef they took tweedledee and knocked out his front teeth and left tweedledum just straight bleeding on the back seat I live on the corner man next to Jack and Jill you know them two brother and sisters who be acting ill I tell em to step back and chill but they'll smack ya grill now let me tell you straight up now you can catch the deal you know Humpty dumpty man they straight played him knocked him off the wall scrambled him up now and ate him see I ain't playing where I live I got to stay praying and every time I come around y'all can hear me saying Chorus: Mary had a little lamb case you didn't know that little lamb took my sin made it white as snow and every where that the lamb will go that's the place I got to go man I got to see the streets of gold Sitting on the corner with my tape recorder and Jack Horner kicking freestyle raps for scraps of spare change to change my money range and cry like Danny Ainge till I make enough checks to win back my ex girl friend I can't pretend I didn't wish that I'd never seen her ill demeanor and this fly dish and the spoon ran away broke out to Santa Fe left me cold ain't seen her since Saturday but hey I got to say I been dissed since way back bought a girl a knick knack but patty was wack in fact I'll get em all back using my rap sheet and make em outcast singing bah with the black sheep and take them to phat beats and show them my work and have them say I'm the man and play them out like a jerk and flirt with a wink and eyebrow on tilt and leave them there while I go to the house that Jack built singing.. Chorus: don't get me started on Jack be Nimble I mean that cat's the kind of dude who just always seems to stay in trouble he always got to hustle kicking it with the 3 blind mice on the corner selling magic beans rolling dice now I be giving him advice but he can't understand Patty Cake? she used to chill w/ the bakers man she got God in her life now and if you see her right now it's a whole another sight now see I be quite proud just to see how Christ showed and blowed up and just turned her whole life around sometime I'm wishing I was living in a nicer town you know a place where London bridge ain't always falling down ya boy Old McDonald he's a little older now he had a farm but well it's kind of gone for now but see I'm a hold it down cause I got to stay praying and every time I come around y'all can hear me saying Chorus: