(What the Little Boy Thought)


     If I had wings just like a bird
        Do you know what I'd do?
     I'd fly way up into the sky
        An' holler down at you.

     I'd fly along the Milky Way
        Feelin' fine and chipper,
     An' then I'd drink some buttermilk
        Fresh from out the Dipper.

     I'd skim along through fleecy clouds,
        An' see the great, Big Bear
     An' ask him how he liked to live
        So high up in the air.

     Wouldn't it be dandy
        To fly just when you please,
     An' go an' ask the Dog-star
        If he worried much with fleas?

     I'd do all kinds of other things
        If I could only fly,
     But I am just a little boy
        An' so I dassn't try.

This poem is in the public domain.