Songs for Children Sung in Japan/Snail

by Anonymous

Snail

Anonymous

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“Won’t you come with me to the mountain, little snail?”
“Oh, no, Mr. Crow, I don’t think I will go to-day,
For ’twas only last summer when I was there,
A black-headed bird came out
Who pecked and pushed me to and fro
And pecked and pushed me left to right,
Until he made a hole in my roof.
Oh, I shall never go up to the mountain again!”