Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cheree!
A sweep is as lucky, as lucky can be.
Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cheroo!
Good luck will rub off when I shake 'ands with you,
Or blow me a kiss and that's lucky too.
Now as the ladder of life 'as been strung,
you may think a sweep's on the bottom most rung.
Though I spends me time in the ashes and smoke,
in this 'ole wide world there's no happier bloke.
Up where the smoke is all billered and curled,
'Tween pavement and stars,
is the chimney sweep world.
When there's 'ardly no day nor hardly no night,
there's things'alf in shadow and 'alfway in light,
On the rooftops of London, coo, what a sight!
2. Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cheree!