Rayner Shoo - Michael Rosens Book of Very Silly Poems

We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce the copyright words of these songs: Morag Blance for Nell and Ned runner-up in the A&C Black Silly Song Competition. Sheetal Borhara, Trina Bose, Sara Isenberg, Martina Klich and Rebecca Ryan of Moss Hall Junior School for Are you pink and green? highly commended in the A&C Black Silly Song Competition. Campbell Connelly & Co., Ltd for The biggest aspidistra in the world by Jimmy Harper, Will Haines and Tommy Connor, 1938 Campbell Connelly & Co Ltd, 89 Fridi Street, London W1V 5TZ.

Used by permission. All rights reserved. Essex Music for The Thing by Charles R. Grean, 1950 (renewed) by Grean Music for the USA: administered for the USA by September Music Inc. Sub-published by Tro Music Ltd, Suite 207, Plaza 535 Kings Road, London SW10 OSZ. International copyright secured.

All rights reserved. Used by permission. International Music Publications Limited, Southend Road, Woodford Green, Essex IG8 8HN, for A G-nu, words by Michael Flanders, 1974 Chappell Music Ltd, London WIY 3FA/International Music Publications Limited; The flies crawled up the window words by Douglas Furber, 1933 Chappell Music Ltd, London WIY 3FA/International Music Publications Limited; I cant do my bally bottom button up words and music by J. P. Long, 1916 Star Music Publishing, B. Feldman & Co Ltd, London WC2H OEA; Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley, 1958 Channel Music Co.

USA, Peter Maurice Music Co. Ltd, London WC2H OEA. All titles used by permission. The Singing Kettle for their help in providing the source of Says she to me. Robert Soulsby and Class IS, Brookvale Junior School for Guneranias Wedding Cake first prize winner in the A&C Black Silly Song Competition. Every effort has been made to trace and acknowledge copyright owners.

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The king he baked a wedding cake upon a sunny day, The king he baked a wedding cake, it was in the month of May, The king he baked a wedding cake, he filled it with old clocks, A cabbage, and an octopus, some apples and red socks. He mixed it, he whisked it, he threw it on the floor, He crushed it, he mushed it, and it slithered out the door. The king he baked a wedding cake and the glue he used was runny, The king he baked a wedding cake with spiders and some honey, The king he baked a wedding cake, he filled it with rusty nails, A crocodile, a felt-tip pen, and a pinch of powdered snails. He folded it, he moulded it, he squeezed it through his toes, He sliced it, and diced it, til the flour went up his nose. The king he baked a wedding cake, he added ripe bananas, The king he baked a wedding cake, it was striped like his pyjamas, The king he baked a wedding cake, it was sixty-one feet high, It weighed ten tons, it squashed his thumbs, which made the poor king cry.

He iceds it, he sliced it, he packed it with black slugs, He covered it in manky moss, and a crust of orange bugs. The king he baked a wedding cake with rats and cats and bats, The king he baked a wedding cake with a thousand buzzing gnats, The king he baked a wedding cake, he gave it to the queen, It made her sick for fifty years and turned her blue and green. She bashed him, she thrashed him, she hit him with a frog, She swung him, she flung him, and slapped him with a log. Robert Soulsby and class IS, Brookvale Junior School