I meant to do my work today

But a brown bird sang in the apple tree

I know that one too

And a buttefly flitted across the field

And all the leaves were calling me

And the buttercups nodded their smiling heads

Greeting the bees who came to call

And I asked the lizard the time of day

As he sunned himself on a moss grove

And the wind went sighing over the land

Tossing the grasses to and from

And a rainbow held out its shining hand

So what could I do but laugh and go

My mother died when I was born

I live with my father on our own

And we had a cottage where we'd go

And he died too, now I'm alone