"This Old Man"

lyric © 2003 Lawrence Mark Lesser; all rights reserved

May be sung to the tune of the children’s folk song of the same title (which uses the numbers 1-10 only).

Here we skip-count by tens:

This old man, he played 0. He played nick-nack like a hero.

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played 10. He played nick-nack on my shin.

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played 20. He played nick-nack – it was plenty!

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played 30. He played nick-nack – and got dirty

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played 40. He played nick-nack – it was sporty

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played 50. He played nick-nack it was nifty.

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played 60. He played nick-nack just to fix me.

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played 70. He played nick-nack for el presidente.

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played 80. He played nick-nack down to Haiti.

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played 90. He played nick-nack very kindly.

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played 100. He played nick-nack like Dagwood Bumstead.

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

Here we go through powers of ten:

This old man, he played 1. He played nick-nack on my thumb

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played 10. He played nick-nack on my shin.

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played 100. He played nick-nack like Dagwood Bumstead.

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played 1000. He played nick-nack – it was rousin’.

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, played 10,000. He played nick-nack – they went browsin’.

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, played 100,000. He played nick-nack on some red housin’

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, played 1,000,000. He played nick-nack at a cotillion.

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, played 10,000,000. He played nick-nack on a pavillion

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, played 100,000,000. He played nick-nack a bit reptilian

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, played 1,000,000,000. He played nick-nack so Brazilian

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

This old man, played 10,000,000,000. He played nick-nack with civilians.

With a nick-nack, paddy-whack, give a dog a bone: This old man came rolling home.

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