http://www.wordnik.com/lists/the-jumblies.xml They went to <a href="/words/sea">sea</a> in a <a href="/words/Sieve">Sieve</a>, they did, <br /> In a Sieve they went to sea: <br />In <a href="/words/spite">spite</a> of all their <a href="/words/friends">friends</a> could <a href="/words/say">say</a>, <br />On a <a href="/words/winter">winter</a>'s <a href="/words/morn">morn</a>, on a <a href="/words/stormy">stormy</a> <a href="/words/day">day</a>, <br /> In a Sieve they went to sea! <br />And when the Sieve <a href="/words/turn">turn</a>ed <a href="/words/round">round</a> and round, <br />And every one <a href="/words/cried">cried</a>, `You'll all be <a href="/words/drown">drown</a>ed!' <br />They <a href="/words/call">call</a>ed <a href="/words/aloud">aloud</a>, `Our Sieve [ain't] <a href="/words/big">big</a>, <br />But we don't <a href="/words/care">care</a> a <a href="/words/button">button</a>! we don't care a <a href="/words/fig">fig</a>! <br /> In a Sieve we'll go to sea!' <br /> <a href="/words/Far">Far</a> and <a href="/words/few">few</a>, far and few, <br /> Are the <a href="/words/lands">lands</a> where the <a href="/words/Jumblies">Jumblies</a> <a href="/words/live">live</a>; <br /> Their <a href="/words/head">head</a>s are <a href="/words/green">green</a>, and their <a href="/words/hand">hand</a>s are <a href="/words/blue">blue</a>, <br /> And they went to sea in a Sieve. <br /> <br />They <a href="/words/sail">sail</a>ed <a href="/words/away">away</a> in a Sieve, they did, <br /> In a Sieve they sailed so <a href="/words/fast">fast</a>, <br />With only a <a href="/words/beautiful">beautiful</a> <a href="/words/pea-green">pea-green</a> <a href="/words/veil">veil</a> <br />Tied with a <a href="/words/riband">riband</a> <a href="/words/by way of">by way of</a> a sail, <br /> To a small <a href="/words/tobacco-pipe">tobacco-pipe</a> <a href="/words/mast">mast</a>; <br />And every one said, who saw them go, <br />`O won't they be soon <a href="/words/upset">upset</a>, you know! <br />For the <a href="/words/sky">sky</a> is <a href="/words/dark">dark</a>, and the <a href="/words/voyage">voyage</a> is <a href="/words/long">long</a>, <br />And <a href="/words/happen">happen</a> what may, it's <a href="/words/extremely">extremely</a> <a href="/words/wrong">wrong</a> <br /> In a Sieve to sail so fast!' <br /> Far and few, far and few, <br /> Are the lands where the Jumblies live; <br /> Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, <br /> And they went to sea in a Sieve. <br /> <br />The <a href="/words/water">water</a> it soon came in, it did, <br /> The water it soon came in; <br />So to keep them <a href="/words/dry">dry</a>, they <a href="/words/wrapped">wrapped</a> their <a href="/words/feet">feet</a> <br />In a <a href="/words/pinky">pinky</a> <a href="/words/paper">paper</a> all <a href="/words/fold">fold</a>ed <a href="/words/neat">neat</a>, <br /> And they <a href="/words/fasten">fasten</a>ed it <a href="/words/down">down</a> with a <a href="/words/pin">pin</a>. <br />And they <a href="/words/pass">pass</a>ed the <a href="/words/night">night</a> in a <a href="/words/crockery-jar">crockery-jar</a>, <br />And each of them said, `How <a href="/words/wise">wise</a> we are! <br />Though the sky be dark, and the voyage be long, <br />Yet we never can think we were <a href="/words/rash">rash</a> or <a href="/words/wrong">wrong</a>, <br /> While round in our Sieve we <a href="/words/spin">spin</a>!' <br /> Far and few, far and few, <br /> Are the lands where the Jumblies live; <br /> Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, <br /> And they went to sea in a Sieve. <br /> <br />And all night <a href="/words/long">long</a> they sailed away; <br /> And when the <a href="/words/sun">sun</a> went down, <br />They <a href="/words/whistle">whistle</a>d and <a href="/words/warble">warble</a>d a <a href="/words/moony">moony</a> <a href="/words/song">song</a> <br />To the <a href="/words/echo">echo</a>ing sound of a <a href="/words/coppery">coppery</a> <a href="/words/gong">gong</a>, <br /> In the <a href="/words/shade">shade</a> of the <a href="/words/mountains brown">mountains brown</a>. <br />`O <a href="/words/Timballo">Timballo</a>! How <a href="/words/happy">happy</a> we are, <br />When we live in a Sieve and a crockery-jar, <br />And all night long in the <a href="/words/moonlight">moonlight</a> <a href="/words/pale">pale</a>, <br />We sail away with a pea-green sail, <br /> In the shade of the mountains brown!' <br /> Far and few, far and few, <br /> Are the lands where the Jumblies live; <br /> Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, <br /> And they went to sea in a Sieve. <br /> <br />They sailed to the <a href="/words/Western">Western</a> Sea, they did, <br /> To a land all <a href="/words/cover">cover</a>ed with <a href="/words/tree">tree</a>s, <br />And they <a href="/words/bought">bought</a> an <a href="/words/Owl">Owl</a>, and a <a href="/words/useful">useful</a> <a href="/words/Cart">Cart</a>, <br />And a <a href="/words/pound">pound</a> of <a href="/words/Rice">Rice</a>, and a <a href="/words/Cranberry">Cranberry</a> <a href="/words/Tart">Tart</a>, <br /> And a <a href="/words/hive">hive</a> of <a href="/words/silvery">silvery</a> <a href="/words/Bee">Bee</a>s. <br />And they bought a <a href="/words/Pig">Pig</a>, and some green <a href="/words/Jack-daws">Jack-daws</a>, <br />And a <a href="/words/lovely">lovely</a> <a href="/words/Monkey">Monkey</a> with <a href="/words/lollipop">lollipop</a> <a href="/words/paws">paws</a>, <br />And <a href="/words/forty">forty</a> <a href="/words/bottle">bottle</a>s of <a href="/words/Ring-Bo-Ree">Ring-Bo-Ree</a>, <br /> And no <a href="/words/end">end</a> of <a href="/words/Stilton Cheese">Stilton Cheese</a>. <br /> Far and few, far and few, <br /> Are the lands where the Jumblies live; <br /> Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, <br /> And they went to sea in a Sieve. <br /> <br />And in <a href="/words/twenty">twenty</a> <a href="/words/year">year</a>s they all came back, <br /> In twenty years or <a href="/words/more">more</a>, <br />And every one said, `How <a href="/words/tall">tall</a> they've <a href="/words/grown">grown</a>! <br />For they've been to the <a href="/words/Lake">Lake</a>s, and the <a href="/words/Torrible">Torrible</a> <a href="/words/Zone">Zone</a>, <br /> And the <a href="/words/hill">hill</a>s of the <a href="/words/Chankly Bore">Chankly Bore</a>!' <br />And they <a href="/words/drank">drank</a> their <a href="/words/health">health</a>, and <a href="/words/gave">gave</a> them a <a href="/words/feast">feast</a> <br />Of <a href="/words/dumpling">dumpling</a>s made of <a href="/words/beautiful">beautiful</a> <a href="/words/yeast">yeast</a>; <br />And every one said, `<a href="/words/If">If</a> <a href="/words/we">we</a> <a href="/words/only">only</a> <a href="/words/live">live</a>, <br /><a href="/words/We">We</a> <a href="/words/too">too</a> <a href="/words/will">will</a> <a href="/words/go">go</a> to sea in a Sieve,--- <br /> To the hills of the Chankly Bore!' <br /> Far and few, far and few, <br /> Are the lands where the Jumblies live; <br /> Their heads 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