A mother once she had a lovely daughter
The mother was an actress on the stage
She traveled with a group of well-trained lions
And each night she went in the lions' cage

One day the daughter had a premonition
That everything that night would not go right
That day she told her mother in the kitchen
"Please, don't go in the lions cage tonight!

Oh, don't go in the cage tonight, mother darling,
For the lions look ferocious and they bite!
And when they get their angry fits, they may tear you all to bits
So don't go in the lions cage tonight!"

The mother heeded not the daughter's warning
But turned to her, and simply said, "Pooh, pooh!
I think I ought to know what I am doing
When I'm around, the lions all be blue!"

That night, while she was dancing in the lions' cage,
The lions thought that they would like to eat
And as they bit the darling mother's head off
These words came down to her so pure and sweet:

"Don't go in the cage tonight, mother darling
For the lions look ferocious and they bite!
And when they get their angry fits, they may tear you all to bits
So don't go in the lions cage tonight!"