Sándor Petőfi Johnny Gopher

Sándor Petőfi Johnny Gopher

1987

Sándor Petőfi Johnny Gopher

Sándor Petőfi Johnny Gopher

Little Johnny,

do you hear?

Come to me,

come, when I say!

Helter-skelter,

sit on my knee,

but do not you stir,

or otherwise -

I just might nip you,

see? Like this!

So, does it hurt?

Sándor Petőfi Johnny Gopher

Well now, do not shout,

just close your mouth

and open up your ears,

open wide those little doors:

now you all see what comes, what goes

flitting through your little head....

a butterfly, so gayly clad,

flutter into Johnny is head!

Once upon a time there was

a man with a very LARGE moustache,

and what he did is what I'll tell.

He went out to the garden well

and slowly lowered down the pail

then pulled it up again, brim full.

Sándor Petőfi Johnny Gopher

What do you think he pulled

up all that water for?

To spray the thirsty summer flowers?

Or was HE thirsty? No, not really.

To the nearby field he walked,

there he stopped and stood and gawked.

What was it he stood gawking at?

Was it a castle in the air

that he tought he'd seen before?

Or the neighbouring village church?

Perhaps he gazed at nothing much.

Sándor Petőfi Johnny Gopher

Or perhaps he saw the man

who yonder bundles up the flax

and soaks it in the retting pit?

He didn't care for these one bit!

Well then, for what?

Rascal!

Shall I tell you why he gazes

and the pail of water carries?

He wants to catch a gopher.

Sándor Petőfi Johnny Gopher

Look!

There goes the gopher,

hey, how nimbly

he can scamper!

In a flash

straight into the hole, he's dashed!

Over the hole our man rushed

and pouredthe water quickly-splash!

And the hole filled up to the brim.

Sándor Petőfi Johnny Gopher

Poor little gopher, poor little thing,

he was soaked right to the skin.

Out he crawled, he'd had enough!

He was caught by the scruff

at the mouth of the hole,

he was caught by the scruff

and carried off home.

Sándor Petőfi Johnny Gopher

So now he's here,

with me in my chair,

for this frisky,

playful gopher

is you Johnny, surely!

Sándor Petőfi Johnny Gopher

Sándor Petőfi Johnny Gopher

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