The Spanking Tree
There’s an evergreen pine
Between the bush and the sign
There on the edge of the grass
It stands on the walk
Of that neighborhood block
Spanking the people that pass
Very quietly,
Quickly and sly
It reaches out
As they go walking by
To give them a hardy spank
They don’t see it come,
Or where it comes from
This mysterious, devious prank
The spanking tree spanks everyone
Folks that walk,
Folks that run
Happy kids,
Grumpy men
Folks on their way
To work for the day
On their way back, It spanks them then
The spanking tree
Spanks boys and girls
Cats, dogs, raccoons and squirrels
It even spanks the passing bugs
Then one morning
Wasn’t the same
Nobody passed, nobody came
That same morning down the street
The aspen tree, started giving out hugs