"When I Was a Bachelor" is an English nursery rhyme.[1]
One of the most commonly used modern versions of the rhyme is:
When I was a bachelor I lived by myself,And all the bread and cheese I got I laid upon the shelf;The rats and the mice, they made such a strife,I had to go to London to buy me a wife. The streets were so bad and the lanes were so narrow,I was forced to bring my wife home in a wheelbarrow.The wheelbarrow broke and my wife had a fall;Down came wheelbarrow, little wife and all.