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1 / They went to sea in a sieve, they did; / In a sieve they went to sea: / In spite of all their friends could say, / On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, / In a sieve they went to sea. / And when the sieve turned round and round, / And every one cried, "You'll all be drowned!" / They called aloud, "Our sieve ain't big; / But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig; / In a sieve we'll go to sea!" / Far and few, far and few, / Are the lands where the Jumblies live: / Their heads are green, and their hands are blue; / And they went to sea in a sieve.
2 / They sailed away in a sieve, they did, / In a sieve they sailed so fast, / With only a beautiful pea-green veil / Tied with a ribbon, by way of a sail, / To a small tobacco-pipe mast. / And everyone said who saw them go, / "Oh! won't they be soon upset, you know? / For the sky is dark, and the voyage long; / And, happen what may, it's extremely wrong / In a sieve to sail so fast." / Far and few, far and few, / Are the lands where the Jumblies live: / Their heads are green, and their hands are blue; / And they went to sea in a sieve.