The poem was written by Charles Edward Carryl who also wrote some good children's books, like _Davy and the Goblin_. The words he wrote vary in some minor details from those Tiger posted above... "Toasted pigs and pickles and figs", "...where the Poohpooh smiles, and the Anagazanders roar", "rubagrub tree", things like that.

I have the poem in Louis Untermeyer's _The Golden Treasury of Poetry_

I think it's a wonderful song and have also sung it since I was very small. Thanks for bringing it up.

--Judy Cook