Hot Hedgehog

As hedgehogs we don’t get much work and thus get little pay And that’s a shame because it’s grandma’s ninety eighth today We can’t afford a birthday cake the shops charge quite a toll But the baker’s just threw out a slightly stale Swiss roll What a stroke of luck I thought, all I need now is candles But then I found a hundred tucked behind some old fork handles * I took my bargains home and put the candles in the cake Which I hadn’t had to purchase and I hadn’t had to bake We hedgehogs had a get together later on that night I struck a match to light the cake and said turn out the light A Swiss roll with a hundred birthday candles (all but two) Went up like a beacon to enliven grandmas ‘do’ I turned around to grandma where she sat in silhouette She didn’t answer when I asked her, ‘Do you want cake yet?’ I asked my grandson, Danny, does your grandma look excited And Danny said it’s hard to tell… it’s granny you’ve ignited [* If anybody on planet Earth doesn’t ‘get’ this reference, Google ‘the two Ronnies, fork handles’]