"But I can't remember now."
I'm lying in the shade
Of my family tree
I'm a branch that broke off
What will become of me?
Dear Mom, I'm lying here
In this queen sized
bed.
I'm thinking back
To all the stories you read to me
About those
little animals
Who went to sea
In their beautiful pea green boat.
But I
can't remember now.
What happened then?
Dear Mom, how does it end?
The
owl and the pussycat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat.
They
took some honey and lots of money
Wrapped in a five pound not.
The owl
looked up to the stars above
And sang to a small guitar,
O lovely
pussy! Pussy my love!
What a wonderful pussy you are.
Let us be married
Too long we've tarried
But what shall we do for a ring?
What shall we
do for a ring? Hey! Hey!
They sailed away for a year and a day
To the
land where the bong tree grows
And there in a wook a piggy wig stood
A
ring at the end of his nose
A ring at the end of his nose.
And hand in
hand at the edge of the sand
They danced by the light of the
By the
light of the, by the light of the moon.
And hand in hand at the edge of the sand
They danced by the light of the
By
the light of the, by the light of the moon.
The moon, the moon. Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Laurie Anderson: Beautiful Pea Green Boat, auf: Bright Red/Tightrope. New York: Warner 1994.
