WAR, From "Bobby Goosey’s Compendium of Perfectly Sensible Nonsense"

 

War

 

An ox and some oxen were axing (swinging axes).

The ox was axing the oxen and

The oxen were axing the ox.

And while the oxen axed the ox,

And while the ox axed the oxen,

The oxen were asking,

“Why are we axing an ox?”

And the ox was asking,

“Why am I axing oxen?”

And they all went on asking,

The ox and all the oxen,

They all went on asking,

But they didn’t stop axing (swinging axes).

 

From Bobby Goosey’s Compendium of Perfectly Sensible Nonsense