Don't Go in the Lion's Cage Tonight

A mother once she had a lovely daughter.
The mother was an actress on the stage.
She traveled with a group of well-trained lions,
And each night she went into the lions' cage.
One day the daughter had a premonition
That everything that night would not go right.
That day she told her mother in the kitchen,
"Please, don't go in the lions cage tonight!
Oh, don't go in the cage tonight, mother darling,
For the lions look ferocious and they bite!
And when they when their angry fits, they may tear you all to bits,
So don't go in the lions cage tonight!"
The mother heeded not the daughter's warning,
But turned to her, and simply said, "Pooh, pooh!
I think I ought to know what I am doing.
When I'm around, the lions all are blue!"
That night, while she was dancing in the lions' cage,
The lions thought that they would like to eat....
And as they bit the darling mother's head off
These words came into her so pure and sweet:
"Don't go in the cage tonight, mother darling,
For the lions look ferocious and they bite!
And when they when their angry fits, they may tear you all to bits,
So don't go in the lions cage tonight!"
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Category:Historical Archive/PD
Category:Poetry