Oh, Johnny Bull was an Englishman went out on a tramp one day
With three cents into his pocket to bear him a very long way
He traveled on for many a mile and no one did he see
Till at length he fell in with an Irishman by the name of Paddy McGee

"Good morning," then says John to Pat,  "and where are you going to?"
"Indeed, I hardly know, sir, I'm searching a job to do."
"Have you any money about you?", at length said Paddy McGee
"Indeed, if that's what you're searching for, I haven't got any for thee."

So they travel on for many's a mile and no one did they meet
At length fell in with a Scotsman, like themselves he was out for work
"Have you any money about you?", at length one upped and said
"Indeed if that's what you're searching for, I haven't got a red."
 
"Well",  says Johnny Bull, "I have three cents now, what'll we do with that?"
"We'll buy three cents worth of whiskey, it'll cheer us up," says Pat
"Oh no," said the Scotsman, "I'll tell you what we'll do
We'll buy three cents worth of oatmeal and make a little McGrew."

"Oh, I will go and buy a loaf," Johnny Bull did say
"We'll go down by yonders haystack and sleep our hunger away
 We'll take a drink of water from yonders pearling stream
The loaf will be his in the morning that dreams the most singular dream."

"Well," says Scottie, "I've been dreaming of fifty thousand men
 Been ten years digging a turnip, the largest ever was seen
 At length they got that turnip dug by digging night and day
 And it took just fifty thousand teams to draw that turnip away."

Says Johnny, "I've been dreaming of fifty thousand men,
Been ten years making a boiler, the largest ever was seen."
"What was your boiler made of, sir, sure was it copper or tin?"
"By the powers that be it was copper, sir, to boil your turnip in."

Well the Irishman rose in the morning and told what he had dreamed:
"Sure I dreamed I was under the haystack down by the pearling stream
I dreamed that Scottie and you was there, as sure as I must go
By the powers, I dreamed I was hungry, I got up and I ate the loaf"