Richard Dawson - William And His Mother Visit The Museum lyrics

I had a wonderful day today I haven't smiled so much in years Every day has been a struggle Since our little boy was Born acutely blind with only A very faint doorway of colour Open him up to the world We hopped on the tram up to Fawcett Street And stopped for a haircut before We pa**ed through the gates of the big museum And wandered up through the door Oh, William, William, what can you see? Mother, mother - I can see Your hankerchief is wet with spit Dappling at my cheek The manager he bid us welcome And patted each child on the head And said to us this exhibition is the first of its kind in the country He led us through a hallway Into a foisty room Boasting a dazzling array of Animals, fishes and birds The leathery nub of a badger's snout The papery wing of a stork The spiralling tail of a pot-bellied pig And the mane of a poor old horse Oh, William, William, what can you see? Mother, mother - I can see A tawny owl perched in a tree Talons around my finger The rippling shell of a giant clam A statue of the sea The loggerhead turtle's scaly feet A minature cobbled street A horny beetle, covered in spikes and barbs Like holding the fossil of a fallen star A corkscrew of tangled fur upon The leg of a great polar bear The notches and nodules on the crocodile's forehead Were more than the kids could bear Oh, William, William, what can you see? Mother, mother - I can see A walrus dozing on the ice Next to a frozen magpie The ribs of a human skeleton They rattle like our garden gate Working the jawbone And gnashing the teeth He didn't have too much to say I can hardly believe that he was Once a person, walking around on the street On the way home we got ice-cream Covered in monkey blood sauce And taking the long way through the park We slopped half of it down our clothes Mother, mother, what can you see? William, William, I can see the first few drops of rain in the air Sparkling like diamonds We had a wonderful day today We had a wonderful day