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But they get up laughing and not hurt at all,

’Cause boys’ bones are soft, so their grandfather said;

And John Quincy Adams, he stands on his head

And drinks from a dipper, and all over town

The boys will tell you how he drinks upside down.

The Adams’s children, they make enough noise

In the yard where they live for three times as much boys,

And sometimes they laugh and you hear it as clear

As can be up to Tinker’s and way over here;

And they’ve got a dog which is almost the same

As the rest of the boys and will play every game,

And bark all the time, and he makes so much noise

He’s just like the rest of the Adams’s boys.

The Adams’s children, they go out to ride

On a pony of theirs, with them all three astride,

And the boy up in front makes him kick up and then

The boy way behind, he gets thrown off again; And the Adams’s pony, he looks just as though He’s trying to laugh when the others laugh so; It looks like a laugh, but he can’t make a noise Like the dog or the rest of the Adams’s boys.