Madly They Did Ride

There was a mad man he had a mad wife,

And they lived in a mad town;

And they had children three at birth,

And mad they were every one

The father was mad, the mother was mad,

And the children mad beside;

And they all got on a mad horse,

And madly they did ride.

They rode by night and they rode by day,

Yet never a one of them fell;

They rode so madly all the way,

Till they came to the gates of hell.

Old Nick was glad to see them so mad,

And he gladly let them in:

But he soon grew sorry to see them so merry

And he let them out again.