My papa held me up to the Moo Cow Moo

So close I could almost touch,

And I fed him a couple of times or so,

And I wasn't a fraidy-cat, much.

 

But if my papa goes in the house,

And my mamma she goes in too,

I keep still like a little mouse

For the Moo Cow Moo might Moo.

 

The Moo Cow's tail is a piece of rope

All ravelled out where it grows;

And it's just like feeling a piece of soap

All over the Moo Cow's nose.

 

And the Moo Cow Moo has lots of fun

Just switching his tail about,

But if he opens his mouth, why then I run,

For that's where the Moo comes out.

 

The Moo Cow Moo has deers on his head,

And his eyes stick out of their place,

And the nose of the Moo Cow Moo is spread

All over the Moo Cow's face.

 

And his feet are nothing but fingernails,

And his mamma don't keep them cut,

And he gives folks milk in water pails,

When he don't keep his handles shut.

 

But if you or I pull his handles, why

The Moo Cow Moo says it hurts,

But the hired man sits down close by

And squirts, and squirts, and squirts.

 

 

It seems that "Moo Cow Moo" appeared in the Saturday Evening Post on November 21, 1903 (which sold for 5 cents at the time). The words above are those remembered by a few generations of reciters but unfortunately we don't have the a hard copy to check their accuracy. © by owner. provided at no charge for educational purposes.