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Thread #94336   Message #1891789
Posted By: oldhippie
23-Nov-06 - 11:35 AM
Thread Name: Common poems set to music
Subject: RE: Common poems set to music
What about this poem? Anyone know if its been set to music?

Before there were pineapples, peaches, and plums
The dog and the cat were companions and chums
They lived in a highly respectable grotto
Where "God Bless Our Home" was their favorite motto

The dog had a parchment, a parchment had he
Proclaiming his right to be happy and free
The charter was signed by the patriach Noah
And witnessed in form by the goat and the boa

The dog went a-hunting on Mount Arrarat
The parchment he left in care of the cat
His trust in the cat was complete and abiding
The dog then as ever was much too confiding

The cat who was always a rover in soul
Grew bored with the cavern and went out for a stroll
Beguiled by the songs of the birds in the bowers
He ambled and rambled for hours and hours

Then out from the crannies the mouse people crept
And lunched on the parchment the puss should have kept
They flocked with their children, their nephews and nieces
They shredded the charter and ate up the pieces

When home came the dog at the end of the day
The last of his freedom was whisking away
He leaped!, But the tails disappeared in a flicker
The dog may be quick but the mouse folk are quicker

When home strolled the cat as the twilight drew dim
The dog paid the utmost attention to him
The cat who at climbing was always a leader
Escaped by a whisker and ran up a cedar

So seeking his vengeance and justly at that
The dog through the ages still chases the cat
The cat with equivalent justification
Has chosen the mouse as his favorite ration