Robert N Hope

If I built a house

 

 

If I built a house,

What a house it would be

Yes if I got to choose

It would be up in a tree

 

In a tree with a trunk

Seventy-two feet around

So that there’s plenty of room

Way up off the ground

 

The only way into

My house in the tree

Would be a jiggily ladder

Made especially for me

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The house that I build

Will go clear up to the sky

Have hundreds of windows

And paper airplanes to fly

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The first floor would be

My pool, of course

And right next to my pool

I’d stable my horse

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There’d be lots of room

For my cat and my dog

With a turtle and snake

Underneath a big log

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The next floor is where

I’d keep all my toys

Stacked up in each corner

All made just for boys

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Above that would be

A sport court with hoops

And a bike track around it

With 2 loopty-loops

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On top of my gymnasium

A big room for my TV

The size of an elephant

My TV would be

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I’d have a big sofa

With games made just for me

All the best movies

And they’d all be 3-D

 

In case I get hungry

There’d be an auto-snack maker

An ice cream dispenser

And a warm-cookie baker

 

And when I get thirsty

I’d have a nozzle on a hose

Turn the knob for a drink

And splash there she goes

 

My bathroom I’d put

In back on the side

And the bath would connect

To the pool with a slide

 

A bedroom beside it

With a trampoline bed

And the ceiling so high

I won’t hit my head

 

Yes, my bedroom would be

Up way, way high

With roof made of glass

So I can look at the sky

 

And the last thing would be

A super fast zip line

To the big tree one over

And the family that's mine!