Pomes in a Pail: Music

• MP3 short clip, hi-fi play (broadband)
• MP3 short clip, lo-fi play (modem)

You’ll have to forgive me, I’m busy right now
I am trying to unteeter my totter
I stuck myself up here — and I won’t say how —
When I did something worse than I ought’r

All the good deeds I’ve done are piled high with me
On the up side of this teetie tottie
While down over there is one ugly green deed
That wasn’t so nice (it was naughty!)

CHORUS:
See, a dozen kind acts make a light, airy load
So you get quite a few to the pound
But that bad deed I did, that’s a 20 ton toad
And it seesaw’d me clean off the ground

’Cause it’s not like a swing, winging hither and yon
To bring you right back where you started
Or a merry go round, where if you hang on,
You’ll end up at the spot you departed

No, a 20 ton toad is real hard to undo
It’s all people see or remember
So let’s call this warning my good deed to you
’Cause I want to get down by December!

REPEAT CHORUS

Yes that bad deed I did, that’s a 20-ton toad
And it seesaw’d me clean off the ground.