Then
recently I was putting together a little display at the Heard Museum
book store for a classic kid's book titled, The Goat in the
Rug. I thought of our poem and
dug it up. It only needed a couple of lines to be complete. So here
it is, the yodeling goat song, written by two miscreants on a slow
night at Borders:
The Yodeling Goat Song
This
is the song of the yodeling goats
They
never eat books but they eat lots of oats
They
live in a castle surrounded by moats
Those
dawdling, oat-eating, yodeling goats.
Sing
yodely-ohdely-dohdely-doo
If
you think they’re funny, then I think so too
Sing
Yodely-ohdely-dohdely-day
They
moved in last week and it looks like they’ll stay
The
yodeling goats, the yodeling goats
They
like to eat fish, so they have shiny coats
They
read magazines and sport colorful totes
Those
oft-toting, fish-eating, yodeling goats
Sing
yodely-ohdely-dohdely-dorm
Don't
buy them a jacket, 'cause they're always warm
Sing
yodely-ohdely-dohdely-day
They
ring all the doorbells and then run away
The
yodeling goats, the yodeling goats
They
don’t give a fig for the DOs and the DON’Ts
They don't cross their Ts and they don't mark their quotes
Those
fig-tossing, mis-quoting yodeling goats
Sing
yodely-ohdely-dohdely, please
Let's
run in the meadows and climb all the trees!
Sing
yodely-ohdely-dohdely-dug
There's
a goat in the pen and a goat in the rug
The
yodeling goats, they have golden throats
And
sing acapella, they know all the notes
They
tap dance all summer, then drink root beer floats
Those
tippy-tap, rooty-beer, golden throat goats
Sing
yodley-ohdely-dohdely-dend
This
yodeling goat song, will it never end?
Sing
yodely-ohdely-dohdely-dain
Come
back here next week and we'll sing it again!
