The ice wagon rattles down the street,
Thumpity, bumpity, bump!
It always comes in the summer’s heat,
Thumpity, bumpity, bump!
The ice picks clank and make such a noise,
Clinkity, clankity, clank!
Down the street run the girls and the boys,
Clinkity, clankity, clank!
Here is a card for seventy-five pounds,
Whoa there, Jerry and Joe!
Chippety chop, how the ice pick sounds,
Whoa there, Jerry and Joe!
Now he comes in at the kitchen door,
Trampity, trampity, tramp!
Dripping water all over the floor,
Trampity, trampity, tramp!
Then he goes in his wagon yellow,
Gee up, Jerry and Joe!
The iceman is a jolly fellow,
Gee up, Jerry and Joe!
—Grade III, North School,
Hinsdale, Illinois
Snow, snow faster,
Come again at Easter.
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