Well when I was a young boy,
My daddy sat me on his knee
And he told me — he told me many things …
A little dented red one, with a besmirched 'm'.
And he said "Son, there's a lot of things in this world …
That you're gonna have no use for!
A plain orange, with a chunk rudely knocked off.
And when you get blue,
A little blue one, with a mealy bit facing us.
And you've lost all your dreams,
A little deflated-looking green one.
There's nothing like a campfire
And a can of beans!"
A big red nutty one, with a crater/hole facing us, and two small hole dimples.
From: Lucky Day
by Tom Waits