Hickory Dickory Dock
The mouse was strung from the clock
The clock struck one, the mouse was hung
Hickory Dickory Dock
It was not him following Christianity
Which the Romans saw as profanity
Else in front of a gallery of rats
He'd have been thrown to the cats
It wasn't because he was Jewish
Which the Inquisition did not love
Else he'd burn on a stake
Planted in the gas stove
It wasn't because he was a noble mouse
Any worse or nicer
Else he'd have been guillotined
At Plaz a la Bread Slicer
Nor did Hitler hate him,
Else he'd have never made it
Out the kitchen door
When the place was fumigated
Nor did he commit a crime
For which he was executed
Strapped to the plug-point
And electrocuted
Nor was he a Saudi journalist
And dared to fight the regents
Or with a butter knife
He'd be dismantled into pieces
No, the reason he was hung, this mouse
Was because he was a thieving rat
And no good clean house
Could bear his unsanitary scat.
- Abdurrahman and Abubakr Jamal
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