Malvina Reynolds

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Jenny Appleseed

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Jenny Appleseed

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If I were Jenny Appleseed,

In this day and time,

I'd have a special job to do,

And this would be mine.

I'd get a great big loading truck

To carry such a load,

And I'd travel through this country

On ev'ry travelled road.

Watch what you're doing,

Please watch what you do,

I can't go on forever

Picking up after you.

I'd pick up every bottle,

I'd pick up every tin,

I'd pick up every carton

And I'd pile them all in.

From every bit of countryside

So green and so fine,

I'd pick up all the clutter left

By my human kind.

And when it was a mountain high

And all it could hold,

I'd paint a sign upon the sides

In letters big and bold:

"Oh all you jolly eaters

Of canned chicken stew,

You soda pop drinkers,

You beer drinkers, too,

Please watch what you're doing,

Please watch what you do,

I can't go on forever

Picking up after you."

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