There once was a small town called Tomdiddloo,
It had a cobbler who liked to make shoes
A cow in the yard who liked to say “moo,”
And a boy with a cold who said only, “achoo.”
Above all of these people sat the king on his throne,
Eating an apple that the farmer did own,
Ordering hats for his people to wear
On top of their heads full of red fluffy hair.
But the prince of the people, he did not care
About all the hats to fit over his hair.
Instead he sat under a large green oak
Playing a tune, sitting on top of his cloak.
And when he was not sitting under his tree,
He carried his lutes on his back happily
And wondered through town without even a word
To anyone, not even the birds.
But the king was angry that the boy had no hat
And got in his cart to do a thing about that.
He found the boy with the lute in his hands
Took it from him and threw it out of the land.
And instead of the lute, a hat the boy now had
But now the poor boy, he now felt very sad.
He wondered through the silly little town
And watched the monkeys play on the trees up-side-down.
The king saw how the boy's sadness grew
The boy’s love for the lute, the king never knew.
Now the king saw how the boy's hat did droop
So the king sent some spies to around the boy snoop.
And the spies, what they saw, it was quite a sad thing.
The boy sat alone and to a tune he did sing
All by himself with not a lute to pluck,
He felt all alone and dreadfully stuck.
The king felt sorry for the young lad
And was sad that he made the young boy feel so bad,
So the king gave the boy new lutes to pluck
And the boy rejoiced that he was no longer stuck.
The boy then began playing a new tune for them all
Everyone gathered ‘round, both the big and the small,
A small one began to do a little jig
Soon everyone joined, even those who were big.
And so that’s how it happened in Tomdiddloo,
To even a cobbler who liked to make shoes
And the cow in the yard who liked to say “moo,”
And the boy with a cold who said only, “achoo.”
They all, from then on, liked to dance all day long
With the boy with the lutes who played them a song
And their hats they all threw far across the land
And instead the whole town became one big band.
This is something I wrote almost 2 years ago in Creative Writing class. Has a strong Dr.Seuss vibe to it. :)
