Tarbelly and Featherfoot

	Tarbelly stood in the door
	Eyes looking out
	Body like a statue
	Mouth drooling, like a leaky spout
	Looking for something from another day
	A day when she could ask him and he would want to play
	Thump, thump, down the stairs he came
	She heard him coming but she stood there just the same
	Featherfoot walked right past Tarbelly into the kitchen
	Made and ate three sandwiches, drunk a pot of coffee, cut his toenails, made three phone calls and answered six
	And all the while Tarbelly stood in the door
	Eyes looking out
	Body like a statue
	Mouth drooling, like a leaky spout
	Feathfoot got to thinking he’d like to go out
	But Tarbelly stood there in the way
	And he thought and he thought and he thought of a game he used to play in his youth, called swing the statue
	And he took Tarbelly by the ribs, and he carried her out into the yard
	And round and round and round he swung
	And then he let her fly, way up high, over the hills she went
	And where she stopped no one can say
	You can’t chase a shadow across a day
	No you can’t get love without giving it away

	Tarbelly stood in the door
	Eyes looking out
	Body like a statue
	Mouth drooling, like a leaky spout
	Looking for something from another day
	A day when she could ask him and he would want to play
	Thump, thump, down the stairs he came
	She heard him coming but she stood there just the same
	Featherfoot walked right past Tarbelly into the kitchen
	Made and ate three sandwiches, drunk a pot of coffee, cut his toenails, made three phone calls and answered six
	And all the while Tarbelly stood in the door
	Eyes looking out
	Body like a statue
	Mouth drooling, like a leaky spout
	Feathfoot got to thinking he' d like to go out
	But Tarbelly stood there in the way
	And he thought and he thought and he thought of a game he used to play in his youth, called swing the statue
	And he took Tarbelly by the ribs, and he carried her out into the yard
	And round and round and round he swung
	And then he let her fly, way up high, over the hills she went
	And where she stopped no one can say
	You can' t chase a shadow across a day
	No you can' t get love without giving it away