Текст песни Dr.Seuss - Oh say can you say

Oh Say Can You Say
Said a book-reading parrot named Hooey,
“The words in this book are all phooey.
When you say them, your lips
will make slips and back flips
and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!”

Fresh Fresher Freshest
Do you like fresh fish?
It’s just fine at Finney’s Diner.
Finney also has some fresher fish
that’s fresher and much finer.
But his best fish is his freshest fish
and Finney says with pride,
“The finest fish at Finney’s
is my freshest fish, French-fried!”

SO…
don't order the fresh
or the fresher fish.
At Finney’s if you’re wise,
you'll say,
“Fetch me the finest
French-fried freshest
fish that Finney fries!”

Dinn’s Shin
We have a dinosaur named Dinn.
Dinn’s thin. Dinn doesn’t have much skin.
And the bones fall out
of his left front shin.
Then we have to call in Pinner Blinn,
who comes with his handy shin-pin bin
and with a thin Blinn shinbone pin,
Blinn pins Dinn’s shinbones right back in.

Bed Spreader Bread Spreader
Bed Spreaders spread spreads on beds.
Bread Spreaders spread butters on breads.
And that Bed Spreader better
watch out how he’s spreading…
or that Bread Spreader’s
sure going to butter his bedding.

Ape Cakes Grape Cakes
As he gobbled the cakes on his plate,
the greedy ape said as he ate,
“The greener green grapes are,
the keener keen apes are
to gobble green grape cakes.
They’re GREAT!”

Are you having trouble
in saying this stuff?
It’s really quite easy for me.
I just look in the mirror
and see what I say,
and then I just say what I see.

Now let’s talk about MONEY!
You should leave your Grox home
when you travel by air.
If you take him along,
they charge double fare.
And your Grox must be packed
and locked in a Grox Box,
which costs much, much more
than a little old fox box.
So it’s heaps a lot cheaper
to fly with your foxes
than waste all that money
on boxes for Groxes.

And, what do you think costs more?…
A Simple Thimble
Or
A Single Shingle?
A simple thimble could cost less
Than a single shingle would, I guess.
So I think that the single shingle should
Cost more than the simple thimble would.

Eat at Skipper Zipp’s
If you like to eat potato chips
And chew pork chops on clipper ships,
I suggest that you chew
A few chips and a chop
At Skipper Zipp’s Clipper Ship Chip Chop Shop.

And if your tongue
Is getting queasy,
Don’t give up.
The next one’s EASY!

The Fuddnuddlers
There are so many things
That you really should know.
And that’s why I’m bothering
Telling you so.
You should know the first names
Of the Fuddnuddler Brothers
Who like to pile each on the heads of the others.
If you start at the top,
There are Bipper and Bud
And Skipper and Jipper
And Jeffrey and Jud,
Horatio, Horace and Hendrix and Hud,
And then come Dinwoodie and Dinty and Dud,
Also Fitzsimmon and Frederick and Fud,
And Slinkey and Stinkey and Stuart and Stud.
And, down at the bottom
Is poor little Lud.
But if Lud ever sneezes,
His name will be MUD.

Quack Quack!
We have two ducks. One blue. One black.
And when our blue duck goes "Quack-quack"
our black duck quickly quack-quacks back.
The quacks Blue quacks make her quite a quacker
but Black is a quicker quacker-backer.

AND...speaking of quacks
reminds me of cracks
and stacks and sacks
and shacks and Schnacks.
SO... oh say can you say,
"I have cracks in my shack,
I have smoke in my stack,
and I think there's a Schnack
in the sack on my back!"

West Beast East Beast
Upon an island hard to reach,
The East Beast sits upon his beach.
Upon the west beach sits the West Beast.
Each beach