Happy as Annie - Larrikin Love

On September 3rd 2003\nI was softly touched by a warm summer breeze\nThere were blue tits flocking and swerving\nMy accuracy is quite unnerving\nI stole into a burnt, orange field\nWhich once was green, but lost its zeal\nTo prance and dance and sing around\nWhich is not condoned in the centre of town\nChildren please beware!\nI’m choked with fear\nOh children please beware!\nI’m choked with fear\nAnd as I crunched those crispy leaves\nI walked towards a shaded tree\nTo find a young girl lying there\nDrifting off without a care\nHer face was covered by a straw hat\n'Happy as Larry' and all of that\nWhen I shouted out to wake her up\nShe was skipping school in the burning hot\nChildren please beware!\nI’m choked with fear\nOh children please beware!\nI’m choked with fear\nAnd as I tried to get her to speak\nI realised that she was not asleep\nI moved her hat to find that her face was grey\nHer knickers wrapped around her ankles\nIt’s not funny!\nChildren please beware!\nI’m choked with fear\nOh children please beware!\nI’m choked with fear\nSwamped with fear…\nDrown in fear…