TheMoss

The Moss - Cosmo Sheldrake

Legend has it that the moss grows

On the north side of the trees

Legend has it that when the rain comes down

All the worms come up to breathe

Legend has it that when the sunbeams come

The plants they eat them with their leaves

Legend has it that the world spins

Round on an axis of 23 degrees

But have you heard the story of

The rabbit in the moon

Or the cow that hopped the planets

While straddling a spoon

Or she who leapt up mountains

While whistling up a tune

And swapped her songs with swallows

While riding on a broom

Well we can all learn things both many and a-few

From that old hunched woman

Who lived inside a shoe

Or the girl that sang by day

And by night she ate tear soup

Or the man who drank too much

And he got the brewers' droop

Come listen up all ye fair maids to

How the moral goes

Nobody knew and nobody knows

How the pobble was robbed

Of his twice five toes

Or how the dong came to own a luminous nose

Or how the jumblies

Went to sea in a sieve that they rowed

And came to shore by the chankly bore

Where the bong trees grow

Where the jabberwocky's

Small green tentacles do flow

And the quanglewangle plays in the rain

And the snow

But have you heard the story

Of the rabbit in the moon

Or the cow that hopped the planets

While straddling a spoon

Or she who leapt up mountains

While whistling up a tune

And swapped her songs with swallows

While riding on a broom

Well we can all learn things

Both many and a-few

From that old hunched woman

Who lived inside a shoe

Or the girl that sang by day

And by night she ate tear soup

Or the man who drank too much

And he got the brewers' droop

Legend has it that the moss grows

On the north side of the trees

Legend has it that when the rain comes down

All the worms come up to breathe

Legend has it that when the sunbeams come

The plants they eat them with their leaves