Tell me how the cow
Jumped over the moon
How the little lady lived in a shoe
How Jack on the beanstalk
Climbed to the sky
Then I'll start believing in you
Tell me how Jack Horner
Got a plumb from his thumb
And how Humpty Dumpty fell
I'm a lot more able
To believe in a fable
Than all the other stories you tell
You said your diamond ring
Was just an innocent little thing
That you got it at a Stanley party
Stanley must be quite a guy
And his parties sure run high
The price tag read one thousand and forty
Tell me, Cinderella
Did you get your fella
Just by losing your shoe?
When I've got the time
To believe in nursery rhymes
Then I'll start believing in you
There are stories galore
In fairy tale lore
Like the farmer who lived in the dell
There's the owl and pussy cat
Know the one about Jack Sprat
That I'm much rather hear you tell
There's the turtle and the hare
The preacher and the bear
And the one about the little boy blue
If I can do no worse
Than nursery rhyme verse
Then I'll start believing in you
You tipsied in the other day
Said you'd been to the PTA
Had your swimsuit
And an olive you were eating
Now they don't wear bikinis
Or hand out martinis
Down at the school house meetings
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie
Just any old fairy tale will do
When I believe there's truth
In old mother goose
Then I'll start believing in you
When I believe there's truth
In old mother goose
Then I'll start believing in you