Author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Boy Fortune Hunters in the Yucatan, Daughters of Destiny, etc
From the stage show The Woggle-Bug. Sheet music originally published in 1905.
Sung by Mombi and 16 Goblins.
[Mombi]:
Shadows are falling,
Screech-owls are calling,
Hobgoblins and sprites appear.
[Chorus]:
Booh-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo
[Spoken]: Booh!
[Mombi]:
With pranks so bold
You shudder to behold
Them creeping up behind you,
Should they find you,
Then you'd better scoot, scoot, scoot.
And if they're jeering,
Then you'd best be fearing,
With devilments wicked they're chock full to boot.
So run away
From where the goblins play,
'Mid gloomy shade of night
To scamper they delight.
And dance with merry tune
Where shines the ghostly moon,
A howlin' and a scowlin',
You can't run away too soon.
When forests darken,
There if you harken, You will hear the goblins call.
[Chorus]:
Booh-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo
[Spoken]: Booh!
[Mombi]:
Hand joined to hand
That grim and awful band
Dance 'round and 'round so madly,
That you'll gladly
Shake your heels and scoot, scoot, scoot.
With nerves ashiver
And your flesh aquiver,
This company doubtless the timid won't suit.
[Chorus]:
So run away
From where the goblins play,
'Mid gloomy shade of night
To scamper they delight.
And dance with merry tune
Where shines the ghostly moon,
A howlin' and a scowlin',
You can't run away too soon.
THE FORGETFUL POET
The Forgetful Poet’s Puzzles
In the first verse last week the dear fellow used west for east, off for on, out for in and left out day. In the second verse he used doggiewillow for pussywillow, puss-wood for dogwood, gnirps for spring, down for up and left out ’possum. In the last verse he left out red.
The March wind seems to have blown his words about today and they are just as nonsensical as ever. For instance take this:
What, ho! ’Tis spring! But then you -----
I really do not care to how,
Or rake, or dig or even plant,
Or rather shall I say I -----.
The clock ran up
I wound it down
Then broke two saucers
And a cup!
I think he has said the opposite from what he means here, don’t you think so? Well, to conclude he remarks:
I fell awake and dreamed a dream
Of summertime and peach -----
[Answers next time.]
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