Dennis Masuzzo & Michael Tomasulo Follow

When you had left our pirate fold,
we tried to raise our spirits faint,
according to our custom old
with quips and quibbles quaint.
But all in vain the quips we heard;
we lay and sobbed upon the rocks
until to somebody occurred a startling paradox.
A paradox? A paradox, a most ingenious paradox!
We've quips and quibbles heard in flocks,
but none to beat this paradox!
A paradox! A paradox! A most ingenious paradox.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha, this paradox!
We knew your tastes for curious quips,
for cranks and contradictions queer,
and with the laughter on our lips,
we wished you there to hear.
We said "If we could tell it him,
how Fred'ric would the joke enjoy!"
And so we've risked both life and limb
to tell is to our boy!
A paradox? A paradox! That most ingenious paradox!
We've quips and quibbles heard in flocks,
but none to beat this paradox!
A paradox! A paradox! A most ingenious paradox!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha, this paradox!
Dear me! Let's see! Yes, yes,
with yours my figures do agree!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha!
How quaint the ways of paradox!
At common sense she gaily mocks!
Tho' counting in the usual way,
years twenty one I've been alive.
Yet reck'ning by my natal day...
Yet, reck'ning by my natal day...
I am a little boy of five!
He is a little boy of five!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha!
A paradox! A paradox, a most ingenious paradox!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha! A paradox!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha! A curious paradox!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha! A most ingenious paradox!