The Little Green Jumping Bean
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There’s a little green jumping bean
Staring through the window screen
Dreaming of the world outside
He’s stuck on a can on top of the shelf,
Bouncing around all by himself
In a jar about 4 inches wide
He has so much to offer, so much to give
Inside a jar is no way to live
He wonders if he’ll ever do more
He spends his days jumping about
Trying to tip the jar so he can get out
Because he’ll never know if he doesn’t explore
One morning he had jumped so much
The jar teetered, tottered, then wobbled and such
It shook and thumped then tipped and dropped
The jar broke on the floor, it hit so hard
So he jumped out the door to the back yard.
He jumped and jumped and never stopped
Past the lawn, beyond the toys
Inside a shack, he heard some noise
He stopped to take a look
Bouncing inside from wall to wall
He found a bouncing bouncy ball
Bouncing so much, the whole shack shook
The Bean said,
”I’m goin off jumpin where jumpers belong”
The bouncy ball went jumping along
They came to a spot in Farmer Tom’s crops
Where a filthy cat lay and a flea circus hops
Where a day in the dust, is a good day spent
The cat sat all day there in the shade
As the bean passed by, that lazy cat stayed
But the fleas from his fur, jumped out and went.
Then…
Where the countryside starts and the city stops
Grasshoppers hopped right out from the crops
They were sick of eating corn on the cobs
In a swampy bog on the side of that road
Sat a laughing frog and a grumpy toad
Munching on some bug kabobs
The Bean said,
”We’re goin off jumpin where jumpers belong”
And all the jumpers went jumping along
That’s when the blue striped Kangaroo
Jumped over the fence as they passed the zoo
He escaped right out from his cage
More jumping beans joined, one by one
A jackrabbit hopped from the desert sun
From behind the cactus and sage
An old pogo stick and some mattress springs
Other jumping beans and jumping things
A jumping spider with a jumping rope
The jumpiest of jumpers from all over the land
Went jumping along as a jumping band
Happy, hoppy and full of hope
They were lost, but they didn’t mind it
They knew their place, just not where to find it
They were looking for somewhere to be
Jumping along in their own jumpy ways
They came to a hill in a foggy haze
To a spot under a wiggly old tree
The fleas, rabbit, and the bouncy ball
The frog, the toad, the springs and all
Kangaroo and the jumping beans
They saw the greatest place they’d ever seen
Led by the little green jumping bean
They found the land of trampolines