Now having children of my own and my oldest going to be 18 in a couple of weeks asked me why I would say that and she was trying to look up the definition. I guess she was talking to friends about things their parents would say growing up and she was the only one that had the weird parents. So she said lol

When you find you’re a broken-down critter,
Who is all of a trimmle and twitter,
With your palate unpleasantly bitter,
As if you’d just eaten a pill–
When your legs are as thin as dividers,
And you’re plagued with unruly insiders,
And your spine is all creepy with spiders,
And you’re highly gamboge in the gill–
When you’ve got a beehive in your head,
And a sewing machine in each ear,
And you feel that you’ve eaten your bed,
And you’ve got a bad headache down here–
When such facts are about,
And these symptoms you find
In your body or crown–
Well, you’d better look out,
You may make up your mind
You had better lie down!

When your lips are all smeary–like tallow,
And your tongue is decidedly yallow,
With a pint of warm oil in your swallow,
And a pound of tin-tacks in your chest–
When you’re down in the mouth with the vapours,
And all over your Morris wall-papers
Black-beetles are cutting their capers,
And crawly things never at rest–
When you doubt if your head is your own,
And you jump when an open door slams–
Then you’ve got to a state which is known
To the medical world as “jim-jams”
If such symptoms you find
In your body or head,
They’re not easy to quell–
You may make up your mind
You are better in bed,
For you’re not at all well!