Elanso

A typo in my April Diary caused the third verse of the plughole song to be verpfuscht. Here are the last two verses as they should have appeared. 'Your baby has gone down the plughole. Your baby has gone down the plug. The poor little thing was so tiny and thin He should have been bathed in a jug. Your baby is quite all right now, dear. He won't need a bath any more. Your baby has gone down the plughole. Not lost, but gone before.'And thanks to the several readers who e-mailed in to tell me that the band Cream (Clapton, Baker, Bruce) included an a capella version of the song, titled 'A Mother's Lament,' on their 1967 album Disraeli Gears. One reader tells me that 'It's sung in a ridiculous Cockney accent, and it's obvious that the three performers were having a ball while recording it. The lyrics can be found here.'