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Crocodile's Toothache
by Shel Silverstein
Oh the Crocodile
Went to the dentist
And sat down in the chair,
And the dentist said,
"Now
tell me, sir,
Why does it hurt and where?"
And the Crocodile said, "I'll tell you the truth,
I have a a terrible
ache in my tooth,"
And he opened his jaws so wide, so wide,
That the dentist, he climbed right inside,
And the dentist
laughed, "Oh, isn't this fun?"
As he pulled teeth out one by one.
And the Crocodile cried, "You're hurting me so!
Please
put down your pliers and let me go."
But the dentist just laughed with a Ho Ho Ho,
And he said, "I still have twelve
to go--
Oops, that's the wrong thing to confess,
But what's one crocodile tooth, more or less?"
Then suddenly, the
jaws went snap,
And the dentist was gone, right off the map,
And where he went one could only guess.....
To North
or South or East or West.....
He left no forwarding address.
But what's one dentist, more or less?
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