Hook's Tango
to cook a cake quite large
and fill each layer in between
with icing mixed with poison
til it turns a tempting green
we'll place it near the house
just where the boys are sure to come
and being greedy they won't care
to question such a plum
the boys who have no mother sweet
no one to show them their mistake
won't know it's dangerous to eat
so damp and rich a cake-
and so before the winking of an eye
those boys will eat that poison cake
and one by one they'll die-
ole!
and fill each layer in between
with icing mixed with poison
til it turns a tempting green
we'll place it near the house
just where the boys are sure to come
and being greedy they won't care
to question such a plum
the boys who have no mother sweet
no one to show them their mistake
won't know it's dangerous to eat
so damp and rich a cake-
and so before the winking of an eye
those boys will eat that poison cake
and one by one they'll die-
ole!
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Writer(s): Carolyn Leigh, Trude Rittman
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