Transcript of “A Chapter of Ifs”
Earlier we were talking about the rhyme that goes if ifs and ands were pots and pans and then there’s
Some other things following that but there is a much longer verse actually there’s lots of verses
To a poem called a chapter of ifs that was published in the the mid-1800s and I
Thought I might share some of this. Sure. Let’s hear it. Here’s some of it. If ifs and ands were
Pots and pans, to would cure the tinker’s cares. If ladies did not carry fans, they’d give themselves
No airs. If down the starry skies should fall, the starlings would be cheap. If bells talked reason
At a ball, the band might go to sleep. And it goes on and on with many more verses and starts
Naming famous people who do this and who that. But the whole idea here is that let’s not
Wish for things that can’t be real because they’re just not going to come to pass.
Oh, that’s nice.
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