I've just been down to London just to have a holiday,
I've never been so far away from home,
Oh the wife was awfully anxious when we started on the trip,
I've never been so far away in---
I got an invitation from an English friend of mine,
To dig with him in London don't you see,
He asked me quite a dozen times, the last time did the trick,
But he said that he would pay the fair for me...