When We Get Johnny’s Reform
Oh! is there not a fuss and bother
About Reform, Reform?
From one end of England to the other,
It’s Reform, Reform.
They say it’s to place us in a position,
That we may better our condition,
And be so jolly happy
When we get Johnny’s Reform.
Little Johnny, bless the darling boy,
Love’s Reform, Reform,
Long time he has nursed his favourite toy,
Reform, Reform;
And the dunderheads says, now really,
Is not it a fine grown baby,
Shan’t we be jolly happy,
When we get Johnny’s Reform.
There is our old friend Jacky Bright,
Says that Reform, Reform,
Is just the thing that’s right,
Reform, Reform;
To the seven-pound franchise he will stick,
And send all opponents to old Nick,
And make all jolly happy
When we get Johnny’s Reform.
Now our pauper system loud does call
For Reform, Reform;
With the great as well as small
Need Reform, Reform;
For the poor are not the only ones,
That feed upon the nation’s crumbs,
But never mind, be happy,
When we get Johnny’s Reform.
The teetotalers they will preach
Up Reform, Reform;
And the water-drinking dodge they teach,
Reform, Reform;
But the tipplers they all do say,
They will get tight three times a day,
And be so jolly happy
When they get Johnny’s Reform.
The little boys and girls they say,
Reform, Reform,
They expect it’s coming some fine day,
Reform, Reform;
Their bellies then they will be stuffing,
With almond rock and cakes for nuffin,
And be so jolly happy,
When they get Johnny’s Reform.
The farmers all throughout the nation,
Want Reform, Reform,
For they stand in need of reformation,
Reform, Reform;
But must not they have tidy cheek,
To give their men eight bob a week,
And tell them to be happy
When they get Johnny’s Reform.
Many they aloud will shout,
For Reform, Reform,
Scarcely knowing what about,
Bawl Reform, Reform;
They think no poor there will be then,
But all be ladies and gentlemen,
And be so jolly happy,
When they get Johnny’s Reform.
Now if the Bill should pass,
This Reform, Reform;
Now little Johnny he will laugh
At Reform, Reform;
His little body he will strut, sir,
Like a crow along the gutter,
And be so jolly happy
When we get the new Reform.
Then let us hope that we may see
This Reform, Reform,
Do some good for you and me,
Reform, Reform;
But liberty give to your thought,
If it don’t do good, why then it ought,
And make us jolly happy,
When we get Johnny’s Reform.
H. Disley, Printer, 57, High Street, St. Giles.