Backyard Puppet Theatre

I’m putting on a puppet show!

It can’t be very hard.

I’m putting on a puppet show

Right here in my back yard.

I had to paint the scenery,

I had to hire the band.

I had to build the puppets

So they fit around my hand.

I had to set the stage up,

And I had to get some seats,

I had to stock the snack bar

With some marshy-mallow treats.

I had to draw some posters

So the audience would come.

I practiced with my puppets

’Til my fingers all went numb!

And now the curtain rises up,

And now the people clap.

But not a single puppet dares

To open up his trap!

Oh why, oh why, they wonder,

Are my puppets so tight-lipped?

Oh, this is so embarrassing—

I never wrote the script!