Storybook Ball

In Mother Goose's book up in the nurs'ry

Poor Simple Simon said: I'm feeling sad

Said Peter Piper's daughter, So am I, and think we oughter

Try to think of something that will make us glad

So Smarty Smarty said: I'll give a party

And they called on the Old Woman in the Shoe

The cat she brought her fiddle, and she played high diddle diddle

And what happened then, I'm goin' to tell to you

Little Jackie Horner, eating pie up in the corner

Stuck in his thumb, pulled out a plum

Little Missy Muffet she was sitting on a tuffet

And she said: Yum, yum! Please give me some

Little Georgie Porgie with his pudding and pie

Kissed Mary Quite Contrary till he made her cry

And Little Bo Peep she lost her sheep

And couldn't find 'em, their tails behind 'em

Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater had a wife and couldn't keep her

At the ball in the hall

Humpty Dumpty met her, said: Better that I get her

And I'll make her fall.

That's not all

Old King Cole, that merry old soul

He fell for Mother Hubbard, blew his big bankroll

Buying lollipops and pretties for the kiddies at the Story Book Ball

They danced and sang till early in the morning

They really didn't know just when to stop

So as the day was dawning and the kiddies all were yawning

They found out the mouse had run up in the clock

Then Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick, he started

And right over that big candlestick he flew

Then Little Tommy Tucker started singing for his supper

And then Poor Boy Blue said: Gee, I'm hungry too

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickling peppers

Brought 'em to the hall, and that's no stall

Tommy Tom the piper's son, he stole a pig and away he run

To the ball.

Ah, that's not all

Polly put the kettle on.

The tea got cold

They had to eat the porridge that was nine days old

Then Jack fell down.

Jill broke her crown

And spilled the water.

She hadn't oughter

Four and twenty blackbirds were baking in a pie

And they refused to sing anything

Wasn't that an awful way little birds to act

Before a queen and king? Such a thing!

Said the knave and the king to the Queen of Hearts

Come on, hurry up, honey, bring some tarts

So she did and the kids had a picnic at the Story Book Ball