Said the Man from Walla-Walla, "You may think that I am loco, But I hear the soft breeze mur-mur and I've got it in my co-co To say 'ta-ta' to my homeland and be off to Pago-Pago Where the bul-bul warbles sweetly over fields of rice and sago. "When the choo-choo gives a toot-toot you will know that I have started," Said the Man from Walla-Walla, "you will see that I've departed Far from ma-ma, far from pa-pa, like a convict freed from Sing-Sing I shall fly to Pago-Pago where the birds upon the wing, sing. "I will say farewell to Mi-Mi—one of Ziegfeld's Merry-Merry, And I'll buy some agar-agar as a cure for beri-beri, And I'll go to Pago-Pago; you may pooh-pooh all you want to But life here is only so-so and I know where I will jaunt to. "I will go to Pago-Pago where I'm certain that I'll have a Little hula-hula maiden who will wear a lava-lava, I will beat upon a tom-tom, primitive as any Zulu, And I'll ride around the country on a gee-gee that's a lu-lu! "Oh, the cares that now oppress me will be dead as any do-do, I will eat the juicy paw-paw, and I will not have to blow dough, Life will be a luscious bon-bon, joyously will night and day go, So it's 'bye-bye, Walla-Walla, I am off to Pago-Pago'!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET: OF THREE GIRLS AND OF THEIR TALK by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO LOVE'S RESURRECTION DAY by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON VERSES ON MRS. ROWE by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD PSALM 65 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN - PROLOGUE FOR MISS FONTENELLE by ROBERT BURNS THE TWO FOUNTS; ADDRESSED TO A LADY ON HER RECOVERY ... FROM PAIN by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |