Dennis Lee - Goofus

Sometimes my mind is crazy
Sometimes my mind is dumb
Sometimes it sings like angel wings
And beeps like kingdom come.

My mother calls me Mary
My father calls me Fred
My brother calls me Stumblebum
And kicks me out of bed.

Go tell it on a T-shirt
Go tell a TV screen:
My summy's turning tummersaults
And I am turning green.

Don't come to me in April
Don't come to me in Guelph
Don't come to me in anything
Except your crummy self.

I haven't got a dollar
I haven't got a dime
I haven't got a thing to do
But write these goofy rhymes.

Sometimes my mind is crazy
Sometimes my mind is dumb
Sometimes it sings like angel wings
And beeps like kingdom come.

Dennis Lee

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