CHERRIES
Cherries! Cherries! Cherries!The robins are excited and delightedTo change the fare at last;For ’twas bugs and grubs and slugsOver two months past.Now it’s cherries till the berriesRipen full and fast.Cherries! Cherries! Cherries!The robins are excited and affrighted;There’s a man up the treeIn a big wig and rigThat would scare a chickadee—But a robin—see him bobbin’In a solemn colloquy!Cherries! Cherries! Cherries!The scare-crow is indicted and requitedWith a pocketful of eggsBaby-blue, with ’em tooGettin’ ready bill and legsFor the Summer that’s a comerWhen the cherry-season begs.Cherries! Cherries! Cherries!The robins are excited and delighted—Not the redbreast but the kindThat eclipse with cherry lipsAnd are not a whit behindRobin Jerries stealin’ cherriesWhen the dummy’s but a blind.
Cherries! Cherries! Cherries!The robins are excited and delightedTo change the fare at last;For ’twas bugs and grubs and slugsOver two months past.Now it’s cherries till the berriesRipen full and fast.Cherries! Cherries! Cherries!The robins are excited and affrighted;There’s a man up the treeIn a big wig and rigThat would scare a chickadee—But a robin—see him bobbin’In a solemn colloquy!Cherries! Cherries! Cherries!The scare-crow is indicted and requitedWith a pocketful of eggsBaby-blue, with ’em tooGettin’ ready bill and legsFor the Summer that’s a comerWhen the cherry-season begs.Cherries! Cherries! Cherries!The robins are excited and delighted—Not the redbreast but the kindThat eclipse with cherry lipsAnd are not a whit behindRobin Jerries stealin’ cherriesWhen the dummy’s but a blind.
Cherries! Cherries! Cherries!The robins are excited and delightedTo change the fare at last;For ’twas bugs and grubs and slugsOver two months past.Now it’s cherries till the berriesRipen full and fast.
Cherries! Cherries! Cherries!
The robins are excited and delighted
To change the fare at last;
For ’twas bugs and grubs and slugs
Over two months past.
Now it’s cherries till the berries
Ripen full and fast.
Cherries! Cherries! Cherries!The robins are excited and affrighted;There’s a man up the treeIn a big wig and rigThat would scare a chickadee—But a robin—see him bobbin’In a solemn colloquy!
Cherries! Cherries! Cherries!
The robins are excited and affrighted;
There’s a man up the tree
In a big wig and rig
That would scare a chickadee—
But a robin—see him bobbin’
In a solemn colloquy!
Cherries! Cherries! Cherries!The scare-crow is indicted and requitedWith a pocketful of eggsBaby-blue, with ’em tooGettin’ ready bill and legsFor the Summer that’s a comerWhen the cherry-season begs.
Cherries! Cherries! Cherries!
The scare-crow is indicted and requited
With a pocketful of eggs
Baby-blue, with ’em too
Gettin’ ready bill and legs
For the Summer that’s a comer
When the cherry-season begs.
Cherries! Cherries! Cherries!The robins are excited and delighted—Not the redbreast but the kindThat eclipse with cherry lipsAnd are not a whit behindRobin Jerries stealin’ cherriesWhen the dummy’s but a blind.
Cherries! Cherries! Cherries!
The robins are excited and delighted—
Not the redbreast but the kind
That eclipse with cherry lips
And are not a whit behind
Robin Jerries stealin’ cherries
When the dummy’s but a blind.