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The House at the Top of the Tree

There's a house at the top of a tree.
There's a house at the top of a tree.
In the house there's a room,
In the room there's a chair,
And sitting in the chair is you.

There's a nose at the end of a snout
Of a dog with his head out the window
Of a car that's driving away from the tree
And at the top of a tree there's a house,
And in the house there's a room,
And in the room there's a chair,
And in the chair is you.

There's a plan to eat the house
In the mind of a mouse in the woods,
And the mouse in the woods has a smell that's detected
By the nose at the end of a snout of a dog,
And the dog has his head out the window of a car,
And the car is driving away from the tree,
And at the top of a tree there's a house,
And in the house there's a room,
And in the room there's a chair,
And in the chair is you.

There are no more potato chips left
In the empty bag in your hand,
And the crumpling sound of the empty bag
Makes the mice get mad, and when the mice get mad
It leads to a plan to eat the house
And the plan's in the mind of the mouse in the woods,
And the mouse in the woods has a smell that's detected
By the nose at the end of a snout of a dog,
And the dog has his head out the window of a car,
And the car is driving away from the tree,
And at the top of a tree there's a house,
And in the house there's a room,
And in the room there's a chair,
And in the chair is you.

And the reason there are no more chips
In the empty bag in your hand
Is that the crumpling sound of the empty bag
Makes the mice get mad, which leads to a plan
To eat the house, but just in time
The dog arrives to give to the mouse
The potato chips that you took from the bag
And gave to the dog to deliver to the mouse
So the mouse would not eat you!


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