Smart Hat

That’s a smart hat, Billy,

A fine and bonny lid,

A tasteful piece of headwear,

You’re sporting there, our kid.

You look like Humpty Gocart,

With all that canny brim,

And it’s a rare old compliment

To say you look like him.

It really really suits you,

You know I wouldn’t lie,

You cut a dashing figure, lad,

They’ll cheer as you go by.

I only wish I had one

So I could wear it too,

And all the folk would say I looked

As half as good as you.

From an ingratiating follower of natty headgear