The jumblies and other nonsense verses . THE JUMBLIES THEY went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea:In spite of all their friends could say,On a winters morn, on a stormy day, In a Sieve they went to sea!And when the Sieve turned round and round,And everyone cried, Youll all be drowned!They cried aloud, Our Sieve aint big,But we dont care a button, we dont care a fig! In a Sieve well go to sea! The ]umblies Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve. II They sailed away in
The jumblies and other nonsense verses . THE JUMBLIES THEY went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea:In spite of all their friends could say,On a winters morn, on a stormy day, In a Sieve they went to sea!And when the Sieve turned round and round,And everyone cried, Youll all be drowned!They cried aloud, Our Sieve aint big,But we dont care a button, we dont care a fig! In a Sieve well go to sea! The ]umblies Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve. II They sailed away in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they sailed so fast,With only a beautiful pea-green veilTied with a riband, by way of a sail, To a small tobacco-pipe mast;And every one said, who saw them go,O wont they be soon upset, you know!For the sky is dark, and the voyage is long,And happen what may, its extremely wrongIn a Sieve to sail so fast!Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;Their heads are green, and their hands
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