We three kings of Orient are,
selling knickers tuppence a pair.
So fantastic, no elastic,
why don't you buy a pair?
It's amazing what you remember from school (all the alternative hymn words) and what you forget (pretty much everything the teachers tried to teach me).
How true.
Then there’s Gladly the Cross-eyed Bear; and for us Yanks:
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for Richard Sands, one nation, in a dirigible, with liberty and justice for all.”
(Note: I first learned it before the “under God” addition of the Eisenhower years which was made to differentiate us from those Godless communists. And as you can see I wasn’t listening very well).
We Three Kings of Orient are
Tried to smoke a rubber cigar
It was loaded, and exploded
…and that’s all I remember. :-X