BAD COLD by Shel Silverstein
This cold is too much for my shirtsleeve.
Go get me a Kleenex ---- and fast.
I sniffle and wheeze
and I'm ready to sneeze
and I don't know how long I can last . . .
Atchoo ---- it's too wet for a Kleenex,
so bring me a handkerchief, quick.
It's ---- atchoo ---- no joke,
now the handkerchief's soaked.
Hey, a dish towel just might do the trick.
Atchoo ---- it's too much for a bath towel.
There never has been such a cold.
I'll be better off with that big tablecloth,
No ---- bring me the flag off the pole.
Atchoo ---- bring the clothes from the closet,
Atchaa -------- get the sheets from the bed,
the drapes off the window,
the rugs off the floor
to soak up this cold in my head.
Atchoo ---- hurry down to the circus
and ask if they'll lend you the tent.
You say they said yes?
Here it comes ---- Lord be blessed ----
Here it is ---- Ah-kachoooo ---- there it went.
This cold is too much for my shirtsleeve.
Go get me a Kleenex ---- and fast.
I sniffle and wheeze
and I'm ready to sneeze
and I don't know how long I can last . . .
Atchoo ---- it's too wet for a Kleenex,
so bring me a handkerchief, quick.
It's ---- atchoo ---- no joke,
now the handkerchief's soaked.
Hey, a dish towel just might do the trick.
Atchoo ---- it's too much for a bath towel.
There never has been such a cold.
I'll be better off with that big tablecloth,
No ---- bring me the flag off the pole.
Atchoo ---- bring the clothes from the closet,
Atchaa -------- get the sheets from the bed,
the drapes off the window,
the rugs off the floor
to soak up this cold in my head.
Atchoo ---- hurry down to the circus
and ask if they'll lend you the tent.
You say they said yes?
Here it comes ---- Lord be blessed ----
Here it is ---- Ah-kachoooo ---- there it went.