The brown bird sang in the apple tree I know that's why .... And a butterfly flittered accross the field And all the leaves were calling me And the buttercups nodded their smiling heads Greeting the bees who came to call And I asked the lizard the time of day....." And the wind went sighing over the land, Tossing the grasses to and fro, And a rainbow held out its shining hand• So what could I do but laugh and go?
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