The Sugar-Plum Tree

Have you ever heard of the Sugar-Plum Tree?'T is a marvel of great renown!It blooms on the shore of the Lollipop seaIn the garden of Shut-Eye Town;The fruit that it bears is so wondrously sweet5(As those who have tasted it say)That good little children have only to eatOf that fruit to be happy next day.When you 've got to the tree, you would have a hard timeTo capture the fruit which I sing;10The tree is so tall that no person could climbTo the boughs where the sugar-plums swing!But up in that tree sits a chocolate cat,And a gingerbread dog prowls below---And this is the way you contrive to get at15Those sugar-plums tempting you so:You say but the word to that gingerbread dogAnd he barks with such terrible zestThat the chocolate cat is at once all agog,As her swelling proportions attest.20And the chocolate cat goes cavorting aroundFrom this leafy limb unto that,And the sugar-plums tumble, of course, to the ground---Hurrah for that chocolate cat!There are marshmallows, gumdrops, and peppermint canes,25With stripings of scarlet or gold,And you carry away of the treasure that rainsAs much as your apron can hold!So come, little child, cuddle closer to meIn your dainty white nightcap and gown,30And I 'll rock you away to that Sugar-Plum TreeIn the garden of Shut-Eye Town.