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Now We Are Six

by A. A. Milne

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Busy

I think I am a Muffin Man. I haven’t got a bell,
I haven’t got the muffin things that muffin people sell.

Perhaps I am a Postman. No, I think I am a Tram.

I’m feeling rather funny and I don’t know what I am—

BUT

Round about
And round about
And round about I go—
All round the table,
The table in the nursery—
Round about
And round about
And round about I go;

I think I am a Traveller escaping from a Bear;

I think I am an Elephant,
Behind another Elephant
Behind another Elephant who isn’t really there....

SO

Round about
And round about
And round about and round about
And round about
And round about
  I go.

I think I am a Ticket Man who’s selling tickets—please,

I think I am a Doctor who is visiting a Sneeze;

Perhaps I’m just a Nanny who is walking with a pram
I’m feeling rather funny and I don’t know what I am—

BUT

Round about
And round about
And round about I go—
All around the table,
The table in the nursery—
Round about
And round about
And round about I go;

I think I am a Puppy, so I’m hanging out my tongue;

I think I am a Camel who
Is looking for a Camel who
Is looking for a Camel who is looking for its Young....

SO

Round about
And round about
And round about and round about
And round about
And round about
  I go.

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