When I´m five I will wash my face me hands all by myself When I´m five I will chew and spit tabacco like my grandfather Jones
´Cause I´m only four and five is far away
When I´m five I will read the magazines in mummy´s drawer When I´m five I will walk behind the soldiers in the May Day parade ´Cause I´m only four and grown-ups walk too fast
Yesterday was horrid day, ´cause Raymond kicked my shin And mummy says if I am good, she´ll let me go to school in August Daddy shouted loud at mummy and I dropped my toast at breakfast And I laughed when Bonzo licked my face, because it tickled I wonder why my daddy cries and how I wish that I was nearly five
When I´m five I will catch a butterfly and eat it and I won´t be sick When I´m five I will jump in puddles, laugh in church and marry my mum And I´ll let my daddy do the washing-up
If I close one eye, the people on that side can´t see me I get headaches in the morning and I rode on Freddie´s tricycle And everywhere was funny, when I ran down to the sweetshop Then I fell and bleeded-up my knee and everybody soppied me
I saw a photograph of Jesus and I asked him if he´d make me five I saw a photograph of Jesus and I asked him if he´d make me five When I´m five When I´m five When I´m oah