shouldn'ts

Updated: May 21, 2025

Just imagine you lived in a big looking-glass! Oh, what could you say and what could you do If you lived all alone in the toe of a shoe? You could hop, you could skip, you could jump, you could dance, And you'd hear very little of "shouldn'ts" and "shan'ts." You could stump your big toe, and it would never get hurt; You could kick up the sand, you could play in the dirt. But it's oh! and it's ah!

Joel Chandler Harris - Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country