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HAVE you ever heard of the Sugar-Plum Tree? / 'Tis a marvel of great renown! / It blooms on the shore of the Lollipop Sea / In the garden of Shut-Eye Town; / The fruit that it bears is so wondrously sweet / (As those who have tasted it say) / That good little children have only to eat / Of that fruit to be happy next day.
When you've got to the tree, you would have a hard time / To capture the fruit which I sing; / The tree is so tall that no person could climb / To the boughs where the sugar-plums swing! / But up in that tree sits a chocolate cat, / And a gingerbread dog prowls below; / And this is the way you contrive to get at / Those sugar-plums tempting you so: