'When the night is dark and scary, and the moon is full, and
creatures are a flying and the wind goes WOOOO-OOOOOOO,
You'd better mind your parents and your teachers fond and dear, and
cherish them that loves ya, and dry the orphans tears, and
help the poor and needy ones that cluster all about,
or the goblins'll gitcha ef ya don't watch out!'

'Once there was a little girl, who always laughed and grinned,
and made fun of everyone, of all her blood and kin, and once when there was company
and old folks was there, she mocked them and she shocked them and said, she didn't care.
And just as she turned on her heels, to go and run and hide,
there was two great big black things a-standing by her side.
They snatched her through the ceiling fore she knew what she's about,
and the goblins'll gitcha ef ya don't watch out!'

'And the goblins'll gitcha ef ya don't watch out!'

'Once there was a little boy who wouldn't say his prayers,
and when he went to bed at night away up stairs,
his mammy heard him holler and his daddy heard him bawl,
and when they turned the covers down, he wasn't there at all!
They searched him in the attic room and cubby hole and press
and even up the chimney flu and everywhere's I guess,
but all they ever found of him was just his pants and round-abouts,
and the goblins'll gitcha ef ya don't watch out!'
James Whitcomb Riley
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