$Id: bagpuss-row-row-the-boat.txt,v 1.4 2008/02/16 19:49:08 sthen Exp $ -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- this is from Bagpuss: The Ballet Shoe and i might have typed it wrong (-: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- row row row the boat gently down the stream merrily merrily merrily merrily life is but a dream i dreamed a dream of two fine mouses tall they were and true they lived in one of your stately houses in jackets of blue and braided trousees and happy as happy as ever a mouse is though there were only two..a two.. though there were only two row row row the boat gently down the stream merrily merrily merrily merrily life is but a dream but one mouse said let's leave these shores lets sail away dear please this shoe will do if we hold the oars and row it along with our delicate paws we'll row it across the mahogany floors till we find the stilton cheese, the cheese till we find the stilton cheese row row row the boat softly on the floor flippety floppety slippety sloppety who could ask for more they rowed and they rowed without a care but didn't look where they went well you may ask how you would fare travelling backwards without a care when you suddenly came to the top of stairs well over the stairs they went, they went over the stairs they went bing bang bong the bup heavily down the stairs biggledy baggledy bobbledy buppedy down the apples and pairs they picked them up from their awful fall and dusted off their knees then down the hall by the kitchen wall they rode and you could hear them call or you could if they hadn't been quite so small where is that stilton cheese, that cheese where is that loverly cheese row row row the boat over the kitchen floor wriggley wraggley into the tunnely under the larder door they searched the dishes and tried to spot 'em find me a nice bit please twas slippery there but they had forgotten they tripped and slipped in something rotten and covered themselves from top to bottom with stinking stilton cheese, with cheese revolting stilton cheese close close close your nose what a dreadful pong stickity stockety hippity hoppety what a smelly song the mice decided they needed a wash they smelt a bit its true they filled the basin with orange squash and jumped right in with a splish and a splosh to wash and polish until they were posh and sticky and pretty as new, as new stickily pretty as new row row hoe the boat sticky with orange squash lickily stickily blibbily blubbely what a lot of bosh -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- hooray for Oliver Postgate.