Mother Goose Rhymes Terrible Tim

Haven’t you heard of Terrible Tim!

Well, don’t you get in the way of him.

He eats lions for breakfast

And leopards for lunch,

And gobbles them down

With one terrible crunch.

He could mix a whole city

All up in a mess,

He could drink up a sea

Or an ocean, I guess.

You’d better be watching for Terrible Tim,

And run when you first get your peepers on him.

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These old women, who never had chick or child of their own, but who always know how to bring up other people's children, will tell you with long faces that my enchanting, quieting, soothing volume, my all-sufficient anodyne for cross, peevish, won't-be-comforted little bairns, ought be laid aside for more learned books, such as they could select and publish.

Fudge! I tell you that all their batterings can't deface my beauties, nor their wise prattlings equal my wiser prattlings; and all imitators of my refreshing songs might as well write another Billy Shakespeare as another Mother Goose—we two great poets were born together, and shall go out of the world together.

No, no, my melodies will never die, while nurses sing, or babies cry.

Excerpt From:"The Only True Mother Goose Melodies", Munroe & Francis, Boston. 1833

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