Fun for All the Family - The Monochrome Set

The painter was dismissed today

We paid him off and put him away

He’d drawn us true to life and then

He’d just refused to do it again

For we were not amused at all

To see a painting upon the wall

Which clearly showed what fools were we

To jealously guard a pedigree

We were all so very concerned

To see the commoners never learned

That inter-breeding could be blamed

For the decline of the regal brain

Indeed the blood was truly blue

But thinner with time, alas, we knew

Now we are all a little insane

And life can never be the same

Mister Goya, we all declare

Was most unkind and very unfair

To paint us in the way he did

As if the royals had lost their lids

Damn it all, the family pets

Were made to look a safer bet

Because we give a regal hoot

Somebody always cocks a snoot