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Tom's pap had helped him start his train, / And all would have been fine / Had not the rocket, raising Cain, / Blocked traffic on the line.
It blew the engine into scrap, / As in a fit of passion. / "Who would have thought that toy," said pap, / "Would blow up in such fashion!"