hist whist little ghostthings tip-toe twinkle-toe little [itchy]1 witches and tingling goblins hob-a-nob hob-a-nob little hoppy happy toad in tweeds tweeds little itchy mousies with scuttling eyes rustle and run and hidehidehide whisk whisk look out for the old woman with the wart on her nose what she'll do to yer nobody knows for she knows the devil ooch the devil ouch the devil ach the great green dancing devil devil devil devil wheeEEE
Enter Ariel
Song Cycle by William Mayer (b. 1925)
?. hist whist  [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship:
- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in Tulips and Chimneys, in 1. Tulips, in 2. Chansons innocentes, no. 2, first published 1923
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View original text (without footnotes)1 W. Mayer: "twitchy"
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?. Flotsam  [sung text checked 1 time]
On the shoals of Nowhere, Cast up -- my boat Bow all broken, No longer afloat. On the shoals of Nowhere, Wasted -- my song -- Yet taken by the sea wind And blown along.
Authorship:
- by Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967), "Flotsam"
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