Billy And His Drum

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Ho! it's come, kids, come!
  "With a bim! bam! bum!
  Here's little Billy bangin' on his big bass drum!
  He's a-marchin' round the room,
  With his feather-duster plume
  A-noddin' an' a-bobbin' with his bim! bom! boom!

  Looky, little Jane an' Jim!
  Will you only look at him,
  A-humpin' an' a-thumpin' with his bam! bom! bim!
  Has the Day o' Judgment come
  Er the New Mi-len-nee-um?
  Er is it only Billy with his bim! bam! bim!

  I 'm a-comin'; yes, I am--
  Jim an' Sis, an' Jane an' Sam!
  We'll all march off with Billy an' his bom! bim! bam!
  Come _hurrawin'_ as you come,
  Er they'll think you're deef-an'-dumb
  Ef you don't hear little Billy an' his big bass drum!

© James Whitcomb Riley