LOLLIPOP TREE
Burl Ives
Burl Ives
One fine day in early spring, I played a funny trick
Right in the yard behind our house
I planted a lollipop stick
And everyday I watered it well
And watched it carefully
I hoped one day that stick would grow - 
To be a lollipop tree

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Ah-ha-ha, oh-ho-ho
What a sight to see
Me and my lollipop, lollipop, lollipop
Lolly, lolly, lollipop tree


Then one day I woke to find a very lovely sight
A tree all full of lollipops had grown in the dark of the night
I sat beneath that wonderful tree and looked up with a grin
And when I opened up my mouth, a lollipop dropped right in 

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Winter came and days grew cold as winter days will do
On my tree, my lovely tree, not one little lollipop grew
>From every branch an icicle hung, it’s limbs were bare as bones 
But when I broke those icicles off they turned into ice cream cones 

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(Contributed by MARY THE GREAT - May 2007)