Granddad

"If you don't quit, with the pestering
I'll put your bike in the shed!"

"If he does Mummy, I'm telling Granddad!"

Cause, Granddad, flies across the sky

He's always got the time

Daddies usually busy

Smeared in working grime

Granddad's very versatile

And he likes plastic food

Daddy say's "I'm working, sweet"

He's never in the mood

Granddad always asks me

He always lets me choose

I like to play at gardening

And water Granddads shoes

Granddad stops the oceans

If my sandcastles to near

Daddy doesn't like the beach

The sand gets in his beer

Mummys always hovering

She's, to scared to let me try

Granddad lets me do everything

We even make mud pie

At Granddads house, I have a bath

And fill it full of foam

I go gliding down the banisters

And never use a comb

I don't eat lime green vegetables

I never wipe my feet

I only use a fork and spoon

Cause Granddad cuts my meat!

Granddad makes the stars come out

The sunlight go away

He makes the pretty flowers grow

And keeps bad things at bay

Granddad never shush's me

Even though he should

I've crashed him with my bike three times

I think he's made of wood

I asked Mummy about Granddad

And why Dad, wasn't as good

She said that time was precious

And it lacked in parenthood

She said what me and Granddad had

Was time without careers

A bracing sense of fun, like minds

No naughtiness, or tears

She said if you could bottle!

What I and Granddad share

And lease it on the nation

Abroad and everywhere

And banished any need to work

And everyone was good

That peace would rein eternally

An earthly neighbourhood

I thought about what Mummy said

Peace means no more war

And Granddad would be happy to help

We'd be the only cure!

I thought of famous, clever people

Like the Queen and Aristotle

I'm going to find a genius

To put us in a bottle!

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