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They went to sea in a sieve, they did,

In a sieve they went to sea.

In spite of all their friends could say,

On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,

In a sieve they went to sea!

And when the sieve turned round and round,

And everyone cried, "You'll all be drowned!"

They called aloud, "Our sieve ain't big,

We don't care a button, we don't care a fig! 

In a sieve we'll go to sea!"

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Far and few, far and few are the lands where the Jumblies live,

Their heads are green and their hands are blue,

And they went to sea in a sieve.

They sailed away in a sieve, they did,

In a sieve they sailed so fast.

With only a beautiful pea-green veil,

Tied with a riband by way of a sail 

To a small tobacco-pipe mast.

And everyone said who saw them go,

"Oh won't they soon be upset, you know!

The sky is dark, the voyage is long,

And happen what may, it's extremely wrong

In a sieve to sail so fast!"

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Far and few, far and few are the lands where the Jumblies live,

Their heads are green and their hands are blue,

And they went to sea in a sieve.

They sailed to the Western Sea, they did,

To a land all covered with trees.

They bought an owl and a useful cart,

And a pound of rice and a cranberry tart

And a hive of silvery bees.

And they bought a pig and some green jack-daws

And a lovely monkey with lollipop paws

And forty bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree

And no end of Stilton Cheese.

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Far and few, far and few are the lands where the Jumblies live,

Their heads are green and their hands are blue,

And they went to sea in a sieve.

In twenty years they all came back,

In twenty years or more,

And everyone said, "How tall they've grown!"

For they've been to the lakes and the Torrible Zone

And the hills of the Chankley Bore.

They drank their health and gave them a feast

Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast.

And everyone said, "If we only live,

We too will go to sea in a sieve

To the hills of the Chankley Bore."

REFRAIN:

Far and few, far and few are the lands where the Jumblies live,

Their heads are green and their hands are blue,

And they went to sea in a sieve.