Roald Dahl

Gooses, geeses

At least a hundred a dayAnd by the wayI want a feastI want a bean feastCream buns and doughnutsAnd fruitcake with no nutsSo good you could go nutsNo, nowI want a ballI want a partyPink macaroonsAnd a million balloonsAnd performing baboons andGive it to me nowI want the worldI want the whole worldI want to…

‘Attention please! Attention please!

Don’t doze or daydream! Stay awake!Your health, your very life’s at stake!Ho–ho, you say, they can’t mean me.Ha–ha, we answer, wait and see.Did any of you ever meetA child called Goldie Pinklesweet?Who on her seventh birthday wentTo stay with Granny down in Kent.At lunchtime on the second dayOf dearest little Goldie’s stay,Granny announced, ‘I’m going…

‘No animal is half as vile

On Saturdays he likes to crunchSix juicy children for his lunchAnd he especially enjoysJust three of each, three girls, three boys.He smears the boys (to make them hot)With mustard from the mustard pot.But mustard doesn’t go with girls,It tastes all wrong with plaits and curls.With them, what goes extremely wellIs butterscotch and caramel.It’s such a…

Come with me and you’ll be

Take a look and you’ll seeInto your imaginationWe’ll begin with a spinTrav’ling in the world of my creationWhat we’ll see will defyExplanation{Refrain}If you want to view paradiseSimply look around and view itAnything you want to, do itWant to change the world, there’s nothing to itThere is no life I knowTo compare with pure imaginationLiving there,…

The animal I really dig,

Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever,Pigs are courteous. However,Now and then, to break this rule,One meets a pig who is a fool.What, for example, would you say,If strolling through the woods one day,Right there in front of you you sawA pig who’d built his house of STRAW?The Wolf who saw it licked his lips,And said,…

Round the world and home again

Faster faster, faster fasterThere’s no earthly way of knowingWhich direction we are goingThere’s no knowing where we’re rowingOr which way the river’s flowingIs it raining, is it snowingIs a hurricane a–blowingNot a speck of light is showingSo the danger must be growingAre the fires of Hell a–glowingIs the grisly reaper mowingYes, the danger must be…