Here’s a little Thanksgiving fun I had with a story I adapted from my favorite childhood book, I Know an Old Lady by Rose Bonne and Alan Mills 1961.
There was an old pumpkin who swallowed a fly
I don’t know why the fly flew inside
Perhaps to make Thanksgiving spiced pumpkin pie
There was an old pumpkin who swallowed a spider
It slid down it’s sticky webbed spider hang glider
Pumpkin swallowed the spider to catch the fly
But I don’t’ know why the fly flew inside
Perhaps to make Thanksgiving spiced pumpkin pie.
There was an old pumpkin who swallowed a bird
Yes I said bird, you haven’t misheard
Pumpkin swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That slid down its sticky webbed spider hang glider.
Pumpkin swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
I don’t know why the fly flew inside.
Perhaps to make Thanksgiving spiced pumpkin pie.
There was an old pumpkin who swallowed a cat,
A cat who was wearing a red striped top hat.
Pumpkin swallowed the cat to catch the bird.
Pumpkin swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That slid down its sticky webbed spider hang glider.
Pumpkin swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
I don’t why the fly flew inside.
Perhaps to make Thanksgiving spiced pumpkin pie.
There was an old pumpkin who swallowed a dog
Mistaking that dog for a barking tree frog.
(Actual Barking Dog)
Barking Tree Frog
Pumpkin swallowed the dog to catch the cat.
Pumpkin swallowed the cat, to catch the bird,
Pumpkin swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That slid down its sticky webbed spider hang glider.
Pumpkin swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
I don’t know why the fly flew inside.
Perhaps to make Thanksgiving spiced pumpkin pie.
There was an old pumpkin who swallowed a goat.
The goat was quite ill with a case of strep throat!
Pumpkin swallowed the goat to catch the dog…
Pumpkin swallowed the dog to catch the cat.
Pumpkin swallowed the cat to catch the bird…
Pumpkin swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That slid down its sticky webbed spider hang glider.
Pumpkin swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I don’t know why the fly flew inside,
Perhaps to make Thanksgiving spiced pumpkin pie.
There was an old pumpkin who swallowed a cow!
Just swallowed it down like a plate of cow chow.
Moooo
Pumpkin swallowed the cow to catch the goat…
Pumpkin swallowed the goat to catch the dog…
Pumpkin swallowed the dog to catch the cat…
Pumpkin swallowed the cat to catch the bird…
Pumpkin swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That slid down its sticky webbed spider hang glider.
Pumpkin swallowed the spider to catch the fly
But I don’t know why the fly flew inside.
Perhaps to make Thanksgiving spiced pumpkin pie.
There was an old pumpkin who swallowed a horse
And most would agree as a matter of course
That this was the pumpkin’s great tour de force,
Until he exploded with monster truck force,
Releasing the cow and the goat and the dog
Who ran from the quivering, quaking squash bog
Out popped the cat and the bird and the spider
That slid down its sticky webbed spider hang glider.
Out flew the fly that had first flown inside,
Who managed to outfly the pumpkin high tide
he gathered the bits of the pumpkins insides;
INDEED to make Thanksgiving spiced pumpkin pie!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!
