One beautiful evening in the garden on Eden
A snake came walking in the twilight
He was
leaning on his ivory cane
And he said, let me tell you a little secret about life
There's a
certain sharpness to a knife, or a diamond
Come here, Watch it glitter
Oh it's another
blue day in a nowhere place
We're singin' hey, hey, nonny, hay
I'm a little teapot
short and stout
Tip me over and pour me out
You know when the Egyptians built their
steam trains
They didn't have any fuel to burn - no wood, no trees anywhere.
But they did
have a lot of old mummy rags lying around
So the gathered up all the rags and burned them in
their trains
Yeah, they burned their ancestors for fuel.
Ooo, I'm a crocodile floating
down the river
I'm a tree catching my own oranges as they fall from my head
I'm a
little teapot short and stout
Tip me over and pour me out
And hello to all the people
who sent me on the way
A pat on the back for you. Have fun, it's your moment now
It's your
turn to walk along the runway road
And me? I sent my better self on ahead.
Your attention,
please
It's like at the end of the play and all the actors come out
And they line up
and they look at you...
And horrible things have happened to them during the play
And they
stand there while you clap and now what?
What happens next?
And the fire dies and there were
furious winds where he went
We're singin' hey, hey, nonny, hey
We're singin' hey, hey,
nonny, hey
It's another blue day in a nowhere place
We're singin' hey, hey, nonny,
hey
I'm a little teapot short and stout
Tip me over and pour me out
