Paroles:
Natalie Merchant

The king of China's daughter So beautiful to see With her face like yellow water, Left her nutmeg tree. Her little rope for skipping She kissed and gave

Calico Pie, The little Bird fly Down to the calico tree, Their wings were blue, singing 'Tilly-Tilly-loo!' Till away they flew, - but they never came

(Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968)) There's nothing makes a Greenland whale Feel half so high and mighty As sitting on a mantelpiece In Aunty Mabel's nighty

The Peppery Man was cross and thin; He scolded out and scolded in; He shook his fist, his hair he tore; He stamped his feet and slammed the door. Heigh

(Charles E. Carryl) A capital ship for an ocean trip Was the Walloping Window Blind. No gale that blew dismayed her crew Or troubled the captain's mind

My age is three hundred and seventy-two, And I think, with the deepest regret, How I used to pick up and voraciously chew The dear little boys whom I

Griselda is greedy, I'm sorry to say. She isn't contented with four meals a day, Like breakfast and dinner and supper and tea (I've had to put tea after

(Robert Louis Stevenson) From Breakfast on through all the day At home among my friends I stay, But every night I go abroad Afar into the land of Nod

I saw a ship a-sailing, A-sailing on the sea; And oh, it was all laden With pretty things for thee! There were comfits in the cabin, And apples in the