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THE BONNIE MONSTER NESSIE
©2005 Shelly Potter/Tune: Irish Washerwoman-traditional
C. Shells – “Cool Cats” CD
1. Far up in the North Country of Scotland in a loch
Lives the bonnie monster Nessie in a cave under a rock
Nu Nessie is the nicest monster that you’ll ever meet
But to be quite honest, she’s nay very neat
2. The monster clan was having a party that t’would be quite dressy
“I’ll never find me tartan skirt,” cried the bonnie monster Nessie
The bonnie monster lassies and bonnie monster lads said
“We will help you sort through your things, we would be right glad.”
3. “Acch!” cried the monsters in distress and shock
When they saw the mess that was underneath the rock
“This could take awhile we fear,
For you’ve nay thrown a thing away in 300 years
CHORUS: And they sang, “Home, home, everything needs their own
Home, home, everybody likes their own
Own space, own place, home, home, home
“Yes, we are ready to help to the very end.”
They rolled up their sleeves and took a deep breath
And started to tackle three centuries of mess
5. There were whosits and whatsits and what-cha-ma-call-its
Oodles and oodles of thingy madoodles
Oh, no, there’s more doo-hickies galore
Widgets enough they could open a store
6. There were half eaten bags of MacDonald happy meals
Deflated balls and rusted bicycle wheels
Eighty-nine socks and a wee broken lock
Four hundred and one empty wrappers of gum
7. There were records and 8-tracks, cassettes and CD’s
Of music nay heard in o’er three centuries
Forty-two pairs of dirty underwear
Ten years of homework and five teddy bears
8. Eight thousand crayons and five hundred coloring books
Halloween costumes of Batman and Captain Hook
Five miles of string and twenty-one rings
Two million, five thousand and one other things WHEW!
11. So the monsters sorted through the things that were nay thrown away
It took them three months, two weeks and a day
And they made Nessie take a vow on the sacred stone
Everything and everyone needs to have a home
12. So a solemn vow was taken by the bonnie monster Nessie
She promised all her bonnie friends she wouldn’t be so messy
And the pledge she took in her cave underneath the rock, was
“I promise to clean my cave once a year, whether it needs it or not!”