Old man Fred he did something illegal:
He went and stole his neighbor's beagle,
Then he done turned the dog into a seagull.
Now his neighbor's MAD!
That neighbor did not like his seagull;
He wanted back his beloved beagle.
He hit Fred with a judgement legal:
Now Fred's wallet's SAD!
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I dunno why Evangelina found this nonsense poem so hilarious as we made it up on the way to Wintersburg Church to send her off to camp. The fourth line of what turned out to be the first stanza was created as a cop-out nonsensical poetic "punchline" since I couldn't think of another fitting word that rhymes with beagle. It turns out we could pair the entire stanza with the one that followed in order to "round out" the rhyming scheme of the entire poem.
Perhaps what made it especially hilarious to Evangelina were the silly drumbeats "pum-putta-pum-pum…" we would added after each line. She insisted that we save this on her blog…
