Nonsense Verse by Bobby Goosey: "Greens"

                                                      Caterpillar of Monarch Butterfly

Bobby Lee Goosey

 

Greens

See that green house?

That’s the Green house.

All of the Greens live there:

Jim Green, Mae Green, and all the little Greens:

Sylvester, Betty Jane, Maybelline and Gene.

 

See that greenhouse by the green house (the Green house)?

That’s the Green house greenhouse.

All of the greens live there:

Turnip Green, Collard Green, and all the little greens:

Mustard, Kale, Romaine and Beet.

 

Well, all of the Greens are in the greenhouse now,

In the Green greenhouse picking greens.

There’s Jim Green, Mae Green, and all the little Greens:

(Sylvester, Betty Jane, Maybelline and Gene) picking

Turnip Green, Collard Green, and all the little greens:

(Mustard, Kale, Romaine and Beet).

 

All of the Greens who live in the Green house

Love to eat the greens that they grow in the greenhouse.

Jim loves Kale, Mae loves Beet,

Sylvester Collard, Maybelline Mustard;

Gene loves any kind of green,

And Betty Jane Romaine.

 [from Bobby Goosey’s Compendium of Perfectly Sensible Nonsense]