Little
Orphant Annie’s come to our house to stay, to wash the cups and saucers up and
brush crumbs away, An shoo the chickens off the porch, an dust the harth and
sweep, An make the fire, and bake the bread, and earn her board and keep, An
all us other children, when the supper things is done, we set around the fire
an has the mostest fun a-listnin to which tale that Annie tells about, and the
goblins at get you, if you don’t watch out!
Wuzst
they wuz a little boy who wouldn’t say his prayers, an when he went to bed at
night away upstairs, his mama heard him holler his daddy heard him bawl, but
when they turned the covers down, he wasn’t there at all, they seeked him in
the rafter-room, cubby-hole and press, they seeked him in the chimney-flue and
everywheres I guess, but all they ever found was his pants and round-a-bout,an
the goblins will get you if you don’t watch out
An
one time a little girl who always laugh and grin, and made fun of everyone and
all their blood and kin, an wasn’t when
there was company an old folks was there she mocked um and shocked um and said
she didn’t care an just as she kicked her heels and turned to run and hide the
wus two big black things astanden by her side an they snatched her through the
ceiling for she knew what she’s about Er the goblins will get you if you don’t
watch out!
An
little Orphant Annie say, when the blaze is blue, an the lampwick stutters, an
the wind goes woo-oo, an you hear the crickets quit, an the moon is gray,an the
lightning-bugs in dew is all squenched away, you better mind your parents an
your teachers fond an dear, an churish them that loves you and dry the
orphant’s tear, an help the poor and needy ones at clusters all about or the
goblins will get you if yo don’t watch out!
