Knick Knack Lyrics

Nude poodles with pool noodles

A singing watermelon

These are few of the things I knew

And there's more that I'll be telling

A bull with a Rose

And a ring in his nose

A shell from Daytona beach

A dancing frog and a laughing dog

They were all just beyond my reach

When I was a kid I saw them myself

On my grandmother's knick-knack shelf

A clown with a frown

A cow with a crown

A ceramic assortment of things

Gewgaws and trinkets and whatchamacallits

A tiny Oz monkey with wings

When I was a kid I saw them myself

On my grandmother's knick-knack shelf

There were thimbles and spoons

And racketycoons

And Pogo and Albert to boot

There were dinos and rhinos a bevy of birds

And a bear in a Sunday suit

When I was a kid I saw them myself

On my grandmother's knick-knack shelf

Many's the hour I spent staring up

Spinning out stories when I was a pup

These tiny tableaus would inspire me to dream

Imagining worlds that were not what they seem

There were endless adventures of dragons and elves

Fueled by the stuff on those Knick-knack shelves

Banjos pianos and burgers and pies

Filling the tales my brain would devise

There were barrels and monkeys and monkeys in barrels

Comical seals honking out Christmas carols

Airplanes and spaceships with alien crews

Matchboxes wishbones and plastic kazoos

Shark teeth and starfish

A small Mickey Mouse

In shelves on the walls of my grandmother's house

When I was a kid I saw them myself

On my grandmother's knick-knack shelf

What I wouldn't give for one more day

With my grandma who taught my mind to play