The Wrong House

I went into a house, and it wasn't a house,

It has big steps and a great big hall;

But it hasn't got a garden,

A garden,

It isn't like a house at all.

I went into a house, and it wasn't a house,

It has a big garden and great high wall;

But it hasn't got a may-tree,

A may-tree,

It isn't like a house at all.

I went into a house, and it wasn't a house -

Slow white petals from the may-tree fall;

But it hasn't got a blackbird,

A blackbird,

It isn't like a house at all.

I went into a house, and I thought it was a house,

I could hear from the may-tree the blackbird call…

But nobody listened to it,

Nobody

Liked it,

Nobody wanted it at all.

Alan Alexander Milne

A.A. Milne, (born January 18, 1882, London, England—died January 31, 1956, Hartfield, Sussex), English humorist, the originator of the immensely popular stories of Christopher Robin and his toy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. After attending the University of Cambridge's Trinity College and writing for the literary magazines Granta and Punch, A.A. Milne began a successful career as a novelist, poet and playwright in the 1920s. His best-known works are his two collections of children's poetry, When We Were Young and Now We Are Six, and his two books of stories about the lovable bear Winnie-the-Pooh and his animal friends.

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