Creatures of the Forest: Hobs, Lobs and Nobs

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If you go down to the woods today, you are sure of a big surprise.

If you go down in the woods today

You'd better go in disguise!

For every Hob that ever there was

Will gather there for certain because

Today's the day the Small Ones have their picnic.

Picnic time for Hobs and Lobs

The little folk are having a lovely time today.

Watch them, catch them unawares

And slay them quick before they get away.

See them hiding in the shrubs

Sharpening knives, they never have any cares.

At six o'clock, the big bad Nobs

Will waken from their beds

And try to tear you all to bits.

Every child who's ever been bad

And cursed to roam the deeps

Filling globes with noxious gas

And stabbing fools in their sleeps.

Beneath the trees where nobody sees

They'll hide and seek as long as they please

'Cause, that's the way the Small Ones have their picnic.