'Song of the Ghost of Gaffer Thumb'

From Tom Thumb (Twelfth Night celebrations at Tavistock House, January 1854).

Dickens, Charles

The Plays and Poems of Charles Dickens. Edited by Richard Herne Shepherd. Volume 1 (1882), p. 85. W. H. Allen & Company.  https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Plays_and_Poems_of_Charles_Dickens/XbZJAQAAMAAJ.

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Inserted into an amateur performance of Kane O'Hara's Tom Thumb n.d (early 19th century) https://www.loc.gov/item/2010667656/. Dickens's poem was written to replace O'Hara's 'AIR. - GHOST' (Scene IV, p 221). O'Hara's play was adapted from Henry Fielding's The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (1731), which was in turn expanded from Fielding's original Tom Thumb. A Tragedy (1730).

Dickens, Charles. 'Song of the Ghost of Gaffer Thumb.' Tom Thumb (1854). Dickens Search. Eds. Emily Bell and Lydia Craig. Accessed [date]. https://dickenssearch.com/verse/1854-01_Tom_Thumb_Song_of_the_Ghost_of_Gaffer_Thumb.

I've got up from my churchyard bed,
And assumed the perpendicular,
Having something to say in my head,
Which isn't so very particular! 
I do not appear in sport,
But in earnest, all danger scorning - 
I'm in your service, in short,
And I hereby give you warning - [Cock crows.]

Who's dat crowing at the door?
Dere's some one in the house with Dinah! 
I'm call'd (so can't say any more)
By a voice from Cochin China!