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| This piece of melancholy nonsense must rank as one of the strangest poems ever written. If you understand any of this, please explain it to the rest of us! | ||||||
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Calico Pie, The Little Birds fly Down to the calico tree, Their wings were blue, And they sang "Tilly-loo!" Till away they flew,- |
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And they never came back to me! They never came back! They never came back! They never came back to me! |
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Calico Jam, The little Fish swam Over the syllabub sea, He took off his hat, To the Sole and the Sprat, And the Willeby-wat,- |
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But he never came back to me! He never came back! He never came back! He never came back to me! |
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Calico Ban, The little Mice ran, To be ready in time for tea, Flippity flup, They drank it all up, And danced in the cup,- |
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But they never came back to me! They never came back! They never came back! They never came back to me! |
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Calico Drum, The Grasshoppers come, The Butterfly, Beetle, and Bee, Over the ground, Around and around, With a hop and a bound- |
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But they never came back! They never came back! They never came back! They never came back to me! |
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Project Gutenberg - Nonsense Books by Edward Lear
Librivox - Nonsense Verses by Edward Lear - Read by Phil Chenevert