Song of the Week: Ten Tiny Turtles

Everyone knows what a fan I am of the Sesame Street song Ladybugs' Picnic by Don Hadley and Bud Luckey with its dependable I,IV,V chord pattern plus the section of the song that is just asking for special sound-effects (knocking on the guitar during the part about "knock knock jokes"). The song I enjoy almost as much is Hadley's and Luckey's unabashedly vegetarian Ten Tiny Turtles:

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One, two, three, four, five, 
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six, seven, eight, nine, ten
                                                       
Ten tiny turtles on the telephone, 
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talking to the grocery man
                                                         
"We would like some lettuce, 
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will you send us ten heads please,
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And ten sweet potatoes, and ten rutabagas 
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with the dimples on their knees.

 
 
And send us 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 artichokes
Ten eggplants over easy--that's one of our little jokes ( ha ha ha )
Ten leafy, leafy collard greens and please make sure they're washed
Light up our eyes, brighten our lives with ten banana squash.

We'll need ten cans of black-eyed peas,
they give you good strong muscles
Ten of those tasty sprouts, the ones that they call brussels
We'd also like ten mangos, they're the favorite of our sister Gert
And one last thing please do include ten apples for dessert--

10!