Why the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon

Wee Willie Winkie met up with Tom Sprat To try to find the crooked cat They employed the help of three blind mice But then decided that wasn’t nice So they left the mice with Ol’ King Cole Who ate curds and whey out of a bowl That he took from Miss Muffet when she ran away From the little spider that ruined her day They went down Drury Lane where they saw the Red Hen Being questioned by all the Kings Men About bells and cockles in neat little rows And who might have taken the emperors clothes She quickly blamed the Duke of York Who supposedly took the knife and fork Just before the cow jumped over the moon Which is why the dish ran away with the spoon.