Isn‘t it such a shame? (Red balloon)


Smiling
Flying
Red balloon in the air

Drifting
Sideways
Without a whisper of care

The owner in blue
Has a tear in her pocket
Hand clutching the void
Arm hanging from socket
Isn’t it such a shame?


Tinker
Taylor
Solder and spy

Different
Reasons
But one tells a lie

The tinkers a friend
Of the man who makes pockets
The solder a hunter
Of the spy who steals rockets
Isn’t it such a shame?


Laughing we hear
From the people off reason
Money is law
Real truth is treason

They captured the heavens
And poisoned the water
Killed all the ancients
And kissed Satan’s daughter
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Rich man
Poor man
Beggar man a thief

Right or
Wrong
It’s a question of belief

The rich man he steals
While the poor man is waiting
The beggar is hungry
While the thief is debating
Isn’t it such a shame?


Walking
Talking
Falling asleep

People
Living
It’s the hole that you dig

Millions off moving lips
Heads that are talking
To the people who are sleeping
While the stalkers are walking
Isn’t it such a shame?


The snowdrift is here
And the snowman is smiling
Looks up to the sky
And sees the sun lying

Searching the heavens
And straight past the moon
For a tear in a pocket
Or a big red balloon

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I really like this-very nice.

Thank you pkd1220 that was sweet. Have a nice day.

There's another version of this rhyme that can be found in The Counting-out Rhymes of Children (1888), by Henry Carrington Bolton:

Tinker,
Tailor,
Soldier,
Sailor,
Gentleman,
Apothecary,
Ploughboy,
Theif.

Bolton explains that children would play a game whereby they would be able to learn their future professions (for boys) or their husbands' future professions (for girls). They would take a number of cherry stones (pits) and point to each one while reciting a word of the rhyme. Whichever one the child ended up on would be his, or her husband's, future profession.

Then the child could go on with the following lines to determine what type of garment the bride and groom would wear to the wedding, what they'd drive to the wedding, where they'd live after they were married, and finally, when they'd get married...

Silk, satin, muslin, rags,
Coach, carriage, wheelbarrow, cart,
Palace, castle, cottage, barn,
(Or Big house, little house, pigsty, barn,)
This year, next year, three years, never.

Thank you, www.mamalisa.com, and your stockpile of nursery rhymes online.


Interesting twist, but it was drivin me nuts!!!!

very nice,welcome