Amanda Schlupp would not pick her toys up She left everything where it lay She played all day and never found time To put anything way Her dollies lay smothered on top of each other Their dresses were wrinkled and ripped He skates were dropped carelessly on her gla** pony The poor thing was broken and chipped Checkers and dominoes, bu*tons and silver bows All were mixed up in a box Her panda and teddy like tangled spaghetti Lay limp in a bed of old socks Her mirror was cracked from the crush of the clutter And hadn't been seen for a year Her hairbrush was bent and the bristles were jammed In the teeth of her bicycle gear She cleats of her soccer shoes dug a deep groove In a record of "Skip to My Lou" And flies crawled around on her pink paper plates With cake crumbs and old mud pie stew Amanda Schlupp would not pick her toys up ... To put anything away
Then one night Amanda dreamed tht her panda Cried, "I can't stand anymore!" When the toys heard him yell, "Rise up and rebel!" They broke down the bedroom door The dollies jumped into the bicycle basket And panda bear pedaled away The checkers jumped over each other to flee And teddy bear shouted "Hooray!" The gla** pony limped up still broken and chipped up And happily hobbled away The soccer shoes kicked out the pile of old socks Then sprinted outside to play The records and skates rolled outside with the plates And the hairbrush went bristling by The bows and the dominoes danced out the door And all that was left were the flies Amanda Schlupp screamed and woke up, "Ahhhh!" And early the very next day She skipped the cartoons and cleaned up her room And put all her toys away