Snip Snap lyrics

One day, Mamma said, "Conrad dear,

I must go out and leave you here.

But mind now, Conrad, what I say,

Don't suck your thumb while I'm away.

The great tall tailor always comes

To little boys that suck their thumbs.

And ere they dream what he's about

He takes his great sharp scissors

And cuts their thumbs clean off, - and then

You know, they never grow again."

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Snip! Snap! the scissors go;

Snip! Snap! the scissors go;

Snip! Snap! Snip! Snap!

And Conrad cries out - Oh! Oh! Oh!

Snip! Snap! They go so fast;

Snip! Snap! They go so fast;

Snip! Snap! Snip! Snap!

That both his thumbs are off at last.

Mamma had scarcely turn'd her back,

The thumb was in, alack! alack!

The door flew open, in he ran,

The great, long, blue-legged scissorman.

Oh! children, see! the tailor's come

And caught our little Suck-a-Thumb.

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Mamma comes home; there Conrad stands,

And looks quite sad, and shows his hands;-

"Ah!" said Mamma "I knew he'd come

To naughty little Suck-a-Thumb."

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