Through eating too much supper before I went to bed

Strange thoughts came on my slumber, strange thoughts came in my head

This world seemed topsy-turvey and people of reknown

Were doing the most peculiar things as they world turned upside down

I dreamt there was no work house and there were no starving poor

And nations never did quarrel, nor never went to war

I thought all men were angels and women ne'er wore a frown

Old maids they had large families as the world turned upside down