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Ho! it's come, kids, come!
"With a bim! bam! bum!
Here's little Billy bangin' on his big bass drum!
He's a-marchin' round the room, / With his feather-duster plume / A-noddin' an' a-bobbin' with his bim! bom! boom!
Looky, little Jane an' Jim!
Will you only look at him, / A-humpin' an' a-thumpin' with his bam! bom! bim!
Has the Day o' Judgment come / Er the New Mi-len-nee-um?
Er is it only Billy with his bim! bam! bim!
I 'm a-comin'; yes, I am -- / Jim an' Sis, an' Jane an' Sam!
We'll all march off with Billy an' his bom! bim! bam!
Come _hurrawin'_ as you come, / Er they'll think you're deef-an'-dumb / Ef you don't hear little Billy an' his big bass drum!