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There was once a little boy	A
So my father told me who	B
Never cared for any toy	A
But just sweet things as boys do	B
Cakes and comfits cream and ice	C
All the things that boys think nice	C
That they like but ought not to	B
Doctors say so more or less	D
And their parents too I guess	D
But they don't know everything	E
Boys know something too by jing	E
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II	-
Well this little boy he cried	F
Day and night for sweet things ate	G
Cake and candy soon and late	G
That is if they did n't hide	F
All such things in some good place	H
Where he could n't find them So	I
One day when they did n't know	I
In the park he met a man	J
Funniest man you ever saw	K
In a suit of red and tan	J
Thin and straighter than a straw	K
Like a stick of candy and	L
This old man just took his hand	M
Led him off to Candyland	M
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III	-
First place that they came to why	N
Was a wood that reached the sky	N
Forest of Stick Candy My	N
How the little boy made it fly	N
Why the tree trunks were as great	M
Big around as at our gate	M
Are the sycamores the whole	O
Strip d like a barber's pole	O
And the ground was strewn and strown	J
With the pieces winds had blown	J
From the branches and as fast	M
As one fell another grew	B
In its place and through and through	B
Each was better than the last	M
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IV	-
After this they came into	B
A great grove of Sugar Plums	P
And an orchard such as few	B
Ever saw of Creams and Gums	P
Marshmallow and Chocolate	M
Where the boy just ate and ate	M
Till he was brimful and felt	M
As I guess a turkey feels	Q
On Thanksgiving to its belt	M
Stuffed with chestnuts And the seals	Q
At the circus that I saw	K
Looked just like that boy I know	J
When he'd eaten bushels pshaw	R
Loads of all that candy Oh	J
He just lay down there and sighed	M
When he couldn't eat no more	S
Though he'd eaten more than four	S
Boys could eat yes twenty four	S
And he just lay there and cried	M
Cried to eat more And the man	J
The Stick Candy Man he said	M
Never a word just smiled instead	M
Sweet as any candy can	J
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V	-
When they'd rested there awhile	T
That old man with his sweet smile	T
Took him by the hand and said	M
'Don't you think it's time for bed '	-
But the boy he shook his head	M
'I want cakes and ice cream now	J
Then I'll go and not before '	-
Wish that I could show you how	J
Sweet that old man smiled then Sweet	M
It was just like honeyed heat	M
Trickling down from head to feet	M
Or just like a candy store	S
Flung right at you But the boy	A
At that smile felt no great joy	A
But as if he'd eaten more	S
Than he ought to 'I feel ill '	-
Said he 'If I had a drink	U
I'd feel better Say I think	U
I smell water What's that hill	V
Is it snow ' The old man smiled	M
Smiled that smile again and quick	W
For it made him feel so sick	W
From him turned the boy and 'Child '	-
Like some melting sugar stick	W
Drooled the old man 'I'll be bent	M
Or be eaten it's not snow	J
But to me it's evident	M
If you really want to know	J
That hill's ice cream Feel the chill	V
On my neck now If you will	V
We will go there ' And they went	M
Found a stranger country still	V
Filled with greater wonderment	M
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VI	-
The very ground was sugar there	X
And all around them everywhere	X
Great cakes grew up like mushrooms some	Y
No bigger than a baby's thumb	Y
And others huge as hats they wear	X
In picture books of pirate kings	Z
And some were jelly cakes great rings	Z
Of reddest jelly macaroons	Z
And sponge cakes like enormous moons	Z
And every kind of cake there is	Z
Just overrun the premises	Z
And in the middle of the land	M
A mountain they had seen afar	A2
Of Ice Cream towered white and grand	M
Such mountains as there only are	A2
In Candyland And from it fell	B2
Two fountains one of Lemonade	M
The other Sodawater Well	B2
The little boy just took a spade	M
And dug into that mountainside	M
And ate and ate and cried and cried	M
Because he could n't eat it all	C2
Nor all the cakes that grew around	M
Like mushrooms from the sugary ground	M
Nor drink up every waterfall	C2
Of Soda and of Lemonade	M
I wish that I'd been there to aid	M
Don't you I know I'd done my best	M
And father said he knew or guessed	M
That that old man felt sorry too	B
Because the boy just had to rest	M
And I felt sorry Would n't you	B
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And that big hill would never melt	M
Just stayed the same No sooner than	J
One took a spoonful it began	J
To grow back in its place One dealt	M
It out in shovelfuls still	V
There was no less in that huge hill	V
And fast yes faster than one knew	B
The mushroom cakes around you grew	B
Wherever one was taken why	-
Up came another better by	-
A long ways and it were no use	Z
To try to drink the fountains dry	-
They ran the more a perfect sluice	Z
My father said that played the deuce	Z
With any little boy that'd try	-
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VIII	-
So in that land a long long time	D2
At least a month he stayed Each day	M
Was like the other Sometime I'm	D2
A going to Candyland and stay	M
A year or longer yes you bet	M
No matter what my parents say	M
What happened next why I forget	M
But one day in the Orchard where	X
Cream Candies grew or was it in	J
The Woods of Candystick or there	X
Where brown the Sugarlands begin	J
Of Mushroom cakes the old man found	M
The boy flat lying on the ground	M
The sugar earth kicked up around	M
And cakes and cream knocked all about	M
And broken into bits and he	-
Just crying fit to kill all out	M
And sick of everything you see	-
And when the old man smiled and smiled	M
That smile again the boy went wild	M
And shook his fist right in his face	Z
And shrieked out at him 'You Disgrace	Z
Get out You make me sick ' A stone	J
You see rock candy strewed the place	Z
Just like the stones that strew our own	J
He picked and aimed and would have thrown	J
And knocked the old man's head right off	-
Had he not stopped him with a cough	-
Saying 'My boy why this won't do	B
What ails you eh ' The boy said 'You	B
Don't smile at me I'll break your head	M
You sugar coated pill with this	Z
I'm sick of sweets and you ' he said	M
'Your face so like a candy kiss	Z
What ails me Eggs and bacon bread	M
And milk and toast and chicken wings	Z
One never has here things they fed	M
Me on at home those are the things	Z
Take me back home where I can eat	M
The things I never wanted once	Z
But now I want them bread and meat	M
Oh was n't I an awful dunce	Z
Now you old sinner take me back '	-
And with those words the old man's face	Z
Fell in a frown that seemed to crack	E2
It all to pieces All grew black	E2
About the little boy a space	Z
But when it lightened up once more	S
Why there he was n't any place	Z
But right in front of their big door	S
His home I say my he was glad	M
And hurried in a different lad	M
From him who had gone out And he	-
From that time on took toast and tea	-
And milk and eggs and never teased	M
As once he used to tease for cakes	Z
And candy and such things My sakes	Z
But were n't both his parents pleased	M