1. Strophe The parting in your hair is hardly ever there, wash your face, shabby in your dress always look a mess, don't you care. Mum is there to see you always look your best, change your dirty vest when you gonna be a king?
1. Refrain Never do a thing. Four and twenty blackbirds sing a long, royal gifts they all will bring. When you are a king, every where you go people bowing low, carriages to take you any where. People never touch a thing when you are a king.
2. Strophe Tore your shirt again, fighting in the rain with what's his name. Shoe black on your face, it's really a disgrace. Mummy smiles and all the while because she loves you she will worry so, and if you're good you know and where you go yo'll be a king.
2. Refrain Never do a thing. Four and twenty blackbirds sing a long, royal gifts they all will bring. When you are a king, every where you go people bowing low, carriages to take you any where. People never touch a thing when you are a king.
Coda When you are a king never do a thing. Four and twenty blackbirds sing a long, royal gifts they all will bring. When you are a king, every where you go people bowing low, carriages to take you any where. People never touch a thing when you are a king.