Nine Cats

The butterfly sailed on the breeze

Past a field of barbed wire trees

Where golden dragons chased around

Pampered poppies on the groundTwo silver trout sat way on high

And watched a royal samurai

Plant two black orchids in a box

And strap it to a laughing foxA minstrel bought a crooked spoon

He gave it to a blue baboon

Who filled it full of virgin snow

And wondered it in the afterglowA toad stood in his ballet shoes

Teaching sixteen kangaroos

How to skip across a lake

They found it hard to stay awakeA pharaoh played a merry tune

And watched nine cats dance on the moon

I didn't know what all this meant

I didn't know why I'd been sent