On a tree by a river a little tom-tit
Sang, "Willow, tit-willow, tit-willow!"
And I said to him, "Dicky-bird, why do you sit
Singing 'Willow, tit-willow, tit-willow'?
Is it weakness of intellect, birdie,?" I cried,
"Or a rather tough worm in your little inside?"
With a shake of his poor little head he replied,
"Oh, willow, tit-willow, tit-willow!"

Gilbert and Sullivan: The Mikado Or: The Town of Titipu