JEEPERS

HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD BELIEVE

THE TALE I HAVE TO SAY,

ABOUT A SQUIRREL NAMED JEEPERS,

ABOUT HIS SQUIRRELY WAYS?

I MET HIM ON A WALK ONE DAY

WHEN HE WAS JUST SO SMALL,

HE DROPPED FROM A LIMB ABOVE,

IT WAS SUCH A VERY HARD FALL.

HE SEEMED STUNNED FOR A LITTLE WHILE,

ENOUGH FOR ME TO PICK HIM UP,

DUST HIM OFF AND PET HIM AND

PUT HIM IN MY TRUCK.

THERE WAS A BOX OF LAUNDRY THERE

ON WHICH HE CHOSE TO SLEEP.

I WENT TO WORK AND LEFT HIM THERE

WITH SOME WATER AND SOME FRUIT.

THE WHISTLE BLEW WHEN WORK WAS DONE,

AND I HURRIED TO MY TRUCK

TO SEE IF JEEPERS HAD LEFT ME.

BUT I WAS STILL IN LUCK.

THERE HE SAT, UPON THE CLOTHES,

WITH A SLEEPY LITTLE LOOK.

I PICKED HIM UP AND LOVED HIM,

AND HE SNUGGLED IN THE CROOK

OF MY ARM, FOR HE WAS HUNGRY

AND NUZZLED FOR SOME FOOD,

I HURRIED TO THE PET SHOP

TO SEE WHAT SQUIRRELS FOUND GOOD.

THERE WAS MUCH TO PICK FROM,

SO I BOUGHT SOME OF IT ALL.

AND JEEPERS STAYED WITH ME

AND CAME EACH TIME I CALLED.

HE COULD COME AND GO AS HE PLEASED,

FOR I COULD NOT CAGE MY FRIEND,

HE SEEMED TO LOVE ME,

AND GUESS WHAT HE WOULD LEND

TO ME..HIS WIFE AND HIS NEW BABIES,

HE BROUGHT FOR ME TO RAISE,

THEY BLESSED ME EVERY DAY AND NIGHT

WITH THEIR LOVELY, SQUIRRELY WAYS.

THEY ARE A VERY PRECIOUS GIFT TO ME.

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