Should I Get Old

 

Should I get old I'll wear

a pinny with a pocket and I'll put

a paper packet

full of coconut mushrooms

in there.


My twinkling eye will smile

all the while you speak

and if you pause for thought

I'll rustle my packet

and let you pick one out. 




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