They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

I was born a jackdaw; why should I try to be an owl?

Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath. They bury bones in hideaways And half the time they trot sideaways.

Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.

Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art.

Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how.