Lyrics - The Tickle Monster
©1998 Jackie Henrion/Mamaloose Music Inc. (ASCAP)
Lyrics - The Tickle Monster
©1998 Jackie Henrion/Mamaloose Music Inc. (ASCAP)
One fine day in Katmandu
A big blue plane went flying through
And dropped a package on a house
A box not bigger than a mouse
What a funny thing
The box was tied with string
And as it sat there in the garden
It looked very big
A little girl stood by the door
She hadn’t reached the age of four
Her older brother stood nearby
And watched the package from the sky
They pulled the string that held it closed
And suddenly a thing arose
It was much bigger than a man
And it said “Hi, my name is Dan”
This was the very strangest mail
It even had a ponytail
And when they asked what it might me
It said “come closer and you’ll see
As they came closer in
It had a great big grin
Then the Tickle Monster tickled them
Till their heads began to swim
Dan tickled them by night
And tickled them by day
He tickled them so hard they yelled,
“Tickle Monster go away!”
They gave him certain hours
When he could play about
But the snuggle monster could come in
When the Tickle Monster stayed out
The Tickle Monster trapped the boy
Until he got away
His little sister set him free
And helped to save the day
They tried to feed him crabs and lobsters
To keep him in his bed
But he said he’d rather tickle little
Girls and boys instead
Well the monster flew away one day
And they were sad and pale
But he said,”Don’t worry, I’ll send
Tickles in the mail”
And sure enough a package came
They opened it and found
Snuggles and tickles jumped right out
And chased them ‘round and ‘round
Well the moral to this story
Is that monsters need love too
And snuggles and tickles
Are good for me and you
So when you see someone who says
That they are sad and blue
You can be a Tickle Monster
And give some snuggles too.