Tea Time Song
Children’s Song (English)
We’re invited for tea time.
The teapot is china
But it doesn’t show
I don’t know why.
The milk is cold
I’ll shelter it,
I’ll put on it an overcoat of mine
So long it reaches the feet,
I don’t know why.
Beware when you drink,
Your nose is going to fall down
Into the cup
And that’s a bad thing,
I don’t know why.
Behind a piece of toast
The honey hid,
The butter, very angry
Blamed it in English,
I don’t know why.
Tomorrow, they will jail
A colonel
For pricking the marmalade
With a pin,
I don’t know why.
It seems that sugar
Was always black
And from a scare, it became white
Just as you can see it now,
I don’t know why.
A shy dish
Got married the day before yesterday.
He addresses his coffeepot spouse
As “You”*,
I don’t know why.
The poor sieves
Are very thirsty
Because they lose water
All the time,
I don’t know why.