ADVENTURS OF ISABEL

Ogden Nash

Solo 1: Isabel met an enormous bear,

All: Isabel, Isabel, didn’t care

The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous,

The bear’s big mouth was cruel and cavernous.

The bear said,

Solo 2: Isabel, glad to meet you. How do, Isabel, now I’ll

eat you.

All: Isabel, Isabel, didn’t worry,

Isabel, didn’t scream or scurry.

Solo 1: She washed her hands and straightened her hair up,

All: Then Isabel quietly ate the bear up.

Solo 1: Once in a night as black as pitch

Isabel met a wicked old witch.

The witch’s face was cross and wrinkled,

The witch’s gums with teeth were sprinkled.

Solo 2: HO, HO, Isabel!

All: the old witch crowed,

Solo 3: I’ll turn you into an ugly toad.

All: Isabel, Isabel, didn’t worry,

Isabel didn’t scream or scurry,

Solo 1: She showed no rage and she showed no rancor,

All: But she turned the witch into milk and drank her.

Solo 1: Isabel met a hideous giant,

All: Isabel continued self-reliant,

The giant was hairy, the giant was horrid,

He had one eye in the middle of his forehead.

Solo 4: Good morning Isabel,

All: the giant said,

Solo 4: I’ll grind your bones to make my bread,

All: Isabel, Isabel, didn’t worry,

Isabel didn’t scream or scurry,

Solo 1: She nibbled the zwieback that she always fed off,

All: And when it was gone, she cut the giant’s head off.

Solo 1: Isabel met a troublesome doctor,

All: He punched and poked till he really shocked her.

The doctor’s talk was of coughs and chills

And the doctor’s satchel bulged with pills.

All: The doctor said unto Isabel,

Solo 5: Swallow this, it will make you well.

All: Isabel, Isabel, didn’t worry,

Isabel didn’t scream or scurry.

Solo 1: She took those pills from the pill concocter,

All: And Isabel calmly cured the doctor.