Original subtitles

(♪ fanfare)

♪ Once upon a time in Storybookland

♪ Old King Cole sent out a royal command

♪ Calling his subjects to the castle hall

♪ Everyone's invited to the royal ball

♪ The storybook opens Hear the trumpets call

(♪ fanfare)

♪ Here's the Piperman from Hamelin

♪ Play your pipe. Play your pipe and bring the storybook folk to life

♪ Call them all to join the party

(♪ pipe)

♪ Little Boy Blue will be there. Too and toot a wicked horn

- ♪ He rehearses every day - (moo)

(♪ toots)

♪ Here's the Crooked House

♪ The Crooked Man. The Crooked Cat. The Crooked Mouse

♪ They go together

♪ Here's Old Mother Hubbard

♪ Dancing from her cupboard

♪ Everyone's invited The kids are all excited

(kids) Whee!

♪ They're on their way to laugh and play

♪ At King Cole's home

(cheers and applause)

♪ Oh, welcome, dear little friends, to my annual jamboree

♪ We'll sing and we'll eat and jiggle our feet

♪ To the tunes of our fiddlers three

(♪ fiddles)

♪ But when the hour of midnight comes

♪ Home to your books you must go

♪ So strike up the music

♪ And on with the show

(applause)

♪ Mary, Mary, quite contrary

♪ How does your garden grow?

♪ Silver bells, cockleshells

♪ Cutest little chorus girls in the show

♪ La-la-la-la-la-la-la la-la-la-la-la

♪ La-la-la-la-la-la-la la-la-la-la-la

♪ La-la-la-la. La-la-la-la

♪ La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

(dinging)

♪ Peter. Peter. Pumpkin eater

♪ Had a wife and couldn't keep her

♪ Old Jack Sprat's little wife's so chubby Dances with her skinny hubby

♪ Goosey Gander shakes a leg

♪ Humpty, Dumpty, what an egg

(♪ honks)

(laughs)

♪ Simple Simon on his way

♪ He's as simple as can be

♪ Three little kittens. Ooh-ooh-ooh here with their mittens. Ooh-ooh-ooh

♪ They never hurry. They never worry dancing together. Light as a feather

♪ Three blind mice sniffing around

♪ Three blind mice

♪ See what they've found

♪ Three blind mice

(♪ tom-toms beat)

♪ One little. Two little. Three little Indians Four little. Five little. Six little Indians

♪ Seven little. Eight little. Nine little Indians ten little Indian boys

(all whoop)

(all whoop)

(whoops)

(whoops)

(whoops)

(sheep bleat)

(all whooping)

Whee!

Whoopee!

(ticking)

♪ We're Hickory, Dickory, Dock

♪ It's midnight, twelve o'clock

♪ Your fun is done, you'd better run

♪ Hickory, Dickory, Dock

(chiming)

(bleats)

♪ Good night, my friends of Storyland

♪ Goodbye, good luck, good night

♪ The storybook closes

♪ One and all we fill his jolly soul

♪ Long live his merry majesty

♪ Old King Cole