What purpose doth umbrellas serve?
To keep my jacket dry?
What health within does it preserve
To draw broth from the soup?
What broth but boiled
Without the chicken noodle, too?
What purpose doth umbrellas serve
To keep me dry as sand within the sea
Dry as death upon an apple fallen
Dry as time yet sure as pine
What is a tree without the apple of an eye
To shed a tear
And rain out the dawn parade
What purpose doth umbrellas serve
What never
Oh, morbid morbid nerve?