If you want a good time, then give something away."
So he sent a fat turkey to Shoemaker Price,
And the Shoemaker said, "What a big bird! How nice!
And, since such a good dinner's before me, I ought
To give poor Widow Lee the small chicken I bought."
"This fine chicken, O see!" said the pleased Widow Lee,
"And the kindness that sent it, how precious me!
I would like to make someone happy as I-
I'll give Washerwoman Biddy my big pumpkin pie."
"And o sure!" Biddy said, "'tis the queen of all pies!
Just to look as its yellow face gladdens my eyes!
Now its my turn, I think; and a sweet ginger cake
For the motherless Finigan children I bake."
"A sweet-cake all our own! 'Tis too good to be true!"
Said the Finigan children, Rose, Denny and Hugh;
"It smells sweet of spice, and we'll carry a slice
To poor little lame jake-who has nothing that's nice."
"O, I thank you, and thank you!" said little lame Jake:
"O what a bootiful, bootiful, bootiful cake!
And O, such a big slice! I will save the crumbs,
And will give 'em to each little sparrow that comes!"
And the sparrows, they twittered, as if they would say,
Like Old Gentleman Gay, "On thanksgiving Day,
If you want a good time, then give something away"