Chrysanthemum flowers are round like a ball.
They grow in the summer and bloom in the fall.
Sometimes they're yellow and sometimes they're not.
Chrysanthemums usually live in a pot.
If I were a flower, I'd want to announce
That I had a name normal folks could pronounce.
"Chrysos'" means gold if you happen to speak
That musty old language that came from the Greeks.
Chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum,
A word you can't say when you're chewing your gum.
This flower is pretty and pleasant to smell,
But,man, it is really a booger to spell.
If I took a notion to send a bouquet,
I'd pick out a flower whose name I could say.
See, what would you write, if you added a card?
"Herewith a flower, the name is too hard
To pronounce."
I think that chrysanthemums surely must be
The loneliest flowers you will ever see.
Why, even the insects avoid 'em too.
Four-syllable flowers are harder to chew.
Chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum,
A word you can't say while you're chewing your gum.
This flower is pleasant and pretty to smell,
But, man, it really is a booger to spell.
One more thing 'bout chrysanthemum's name:
It's certain to drive all the poets insane.
Try it yourself and give it some time,
But you'll never invent a chrysanthemum rhyme.
A song 'bout this flower's impossible to make.
Shakespeare himself would have gotten the shakes.
Brave poets who tried it are now on the shelf,
But Drover, take note: I've done it myself!
chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum,
A word you can't say while you're chewing your gum.
This flower is pleasant and pretty to smell,
But,man, it is really a booger to spell.
written by: John .R. Erickson
