The Animal Store

If I had a hundred dollars to spend,

    Or maybe a little more,

I’d hurry as fast as my legs would go

    Straight to the animal store.

I wouldn’t say, “How much for this or that?”

    “What kind of a dog is he?”

I’d buy as many as rolled an eye,

    Or wagged a tail at me!

I’d take the hound with the drooping ears

    That sits by himself alone;

Cockers and Cairns and wobbly pups

    For to be my very own.

I might buy a parrot all red and green,

    And the monkey I saw before,

If I had a hundred dollars to spend,

    Or maybe a little more.