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this one is a clapping game (you can use any rhythm you wish, or read it as a poem)
In the woods back east
Not far from the shore
There’s a little dirt road
That splits in four
First goes to Axton
Second to the trolley
Third to an empty field
Covered with poppies
At the end of the fourth
There’s a big brass bell
On a rotten wood post
On a mossy old well
It’s the warning bell
For the town of Gaddow
Though there’s not much
Of a town left now
A hundred years ago
A fire started in the church
And the flames went quick
Over walls of birch
Only little Suzie
Wasn’t in the congregation
So she ran to the bell
And with great determination
Suzie reached for the bell and shouted
“Fire in the church!”
But she couldn’t ring the bell
Without a better perch
So she climbed the stone wall
And she slipped and fell
And died right there
At the bottom of the well
Some say if you go walking
Up near the old town
You’ll hear the people screaming
As the church burns down
And on clearer knights
You can even hear the bell
Ringing loud and clear
In a mournful knell
They were buried in the field
Where the poppies grew
And a hundred years passed
Give or take a few
But the question remains
In the minds of their kin
If everyone was in the church
Who locked them in?
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