For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for February 03, 2022

you’re not gonna die, Ape

Good job it wasn’t the full rhyme.

Some cute tales can sound like horror stories to the youngest of us.

This is one of my favorite Liz outfits. Sometimes simple is best.

I’ve been singing that song to kids for decades—they always love it, and once they learn it, join in on all the verses and love to shout out the last line of the last verse … “SHE’S DEAD OF COURSE!”

I know an old lady who swallowed a cow

I don’t know how she swallowed the cow

She swallowed the cow to catch the goat

She swallowed the goat to catch the dog

She swallowed the dog to catch the cat

She swallowed the cat to catch the bird

She swallowed the bird to catch the spider

That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly

But I don’t know why she swallowed that fly

Perhaps she’ll die

I know an old lady who swallowed a horse

She’s alive and well of course!

April’s wondering how to get cat hair off your tongue.

From her thought balloon, April is eating the fly.

I know he didn’t write it, but this song was tailor-made for Shel Silverstein, like a precursor to “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout.”

Yet another reason to keep small ones away from the telly.

Panel 3: What on Earth is Elizabeth wearing?? ….. Panel 4: I think this is the first time you see a cat in this comic strip.… though I could be wrong…

You can’t beat a kid’s imagination!

Ain’t this strip the truth!

Nice song. …ick. Speaking of Sesame Street, just once, I want to eat cookies like the cookie monster in a restaurant. Preferably a high class one that I will never go back to again. ..of course I would have to go into a “high-class” restaurant in the first place, soooo maybe not.

Loved Pete Seeger’s version with Banjo!

Just don’t swallow the horse.

Well, I know what I’m singing for the rest of the day. Thanks.

’My earliest memory of this song was from “Captain Kangaroo”.

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Being April, I would have thought she would try to eat a fly next instead of just being puzzled by the poem.

I wonder if this song is now banned in school because it would traumatize the little snowflakes and require a counselor to brought in to help with their PTSD.

Liz looks both cute and like she’s dressed up for a funeral.

Liz looks foxy today.

not a good song for before a meal. poor kid

I never heard this song before and I don’t care to hear it again.

Amazing language comprehension for a girl that is not even 2 years old yet.

Some of these kids songs are really quite weird, aren’t they?

mmm, flies

I’m not familiar with that one…

Only time I remember it being done was by Judy Collins on the Muppet Show. I don’t know if it’s on any of her albums.

Yum!

Why didn’t the guy care if Jimmy Cracked Corn?