700 BC - Momus

7000 BC - Momus
Written by：Nicholas Currie
Solve a Chinese puzzle
Make a Chinese box
Pour ink into the milk jug
Of a Wedgewood cement mixer
Play chess with a monkey
Let the monkey win
Visit Antwerp briefly
Staying at the Winter Inn
When your eyes have come back to your eye pits after draw
Will you knit a scale model of the Alps from white wool
Will you do a bit of reading or fish about for
Will you do a bit of reading or fish about for squid
Will you take a pad for scribbling or money in a grid
And the flickery tubes drinking spilly tea
The Calcutta bookdealer reads the history of the drupe
The house pet and the pet plant fight through
Your apartment
The lion and the
The house pet and the pet plant fight through
Your apartment
The lion and the unicorn Jamaica and Tibet
The house is washing dishes
The house is pulling sand
And the click-click thermometer
Virtue and responsibility
Shells split well
Shells split well
Shells split well
You open them by hand
One pistachio tree
Can live for centuries I understand
The Caucases pistachio grows in Asia Minor
Will you knit a scale model of the Alps from white wool
Will you do a bit of reading or fish about for squid
Under flickery tubes drinking spilly tea
7000 BC
Shake the tree
Shake the tree
Oh shake the tree