| Yo, billy goats like myself favor hillsides.
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| We’re so good at going up them, it instills pride.
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| And it feels right, posing on a peak.
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| From up here, see into the end of next week.
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| So I speak from observation, brothers: way over yon,
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| there’s an incline that I like to picture us on.
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| Got the greenest of the grasses that I ever beheld.
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| With a breeze in our direction, I could tell by the smell
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| that we’ve never been fed how this hilltop could feed us.
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| My bigger brothers, I dream of all three of us
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| wandering yonder and filling our bellies up.
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| But! |
| Without us becoming deli cuts
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| in the process. |
| This is the rub.
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| Got a stream in between going glubbidy-glub.
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| The only bridge over, infested by troll.
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| Hunger in my belly’s got me ready, set, go!
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| Look at me, I could be much chubbier.
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| If I could eat, you would see much chubbier me,
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| and then I would be much chubbier.
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| Look at me, I could be much chubbier.
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| I’m so scrawny! |
| Much chubbier,
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| the goat behind me is chubbier.
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| He’s much chubbier.
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| Big buck big brother, you’re the tallest of all of us.
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| You could skip the situation like a troll apologist,
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| non-confrontational, bypass the bridge,
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| ford the river, meet your brothers on the ridge. |
| What a cinch!
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| But the kid and the buckling get et in that scenario,
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| two orders of cabrito by the scary moat.
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| And I know biggest brother isn’t timid.
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| Make short work: bridge troll, one minute.
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| But check that bridge, it’s thin, it’s flimsy.
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| That thing’s finished if you tussle, what a grim scene:
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| planks and ropes in the water, wave goodbye.
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| And that’s two of us still going hungry tonight.
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| So follow my lead, I got a notion to negotiate.
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| Yo, troll, ready up your dinner plate!
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| Not for me, though. |
| I’m much too slight.
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| Look and see! |
| I’m the littlest, could barely fill a bite.
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| He thinks I’m a plum fool, little does he know.
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| He thinks he’s so smart, I think he’s a beanpole.
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| Look at his chump chop, tiny and sinewy.
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| His little hind legs, they remind me of centipedes.
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| I wait for the real meat. |
| That one’s a real geek.
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| This little brainiac’s a waste of my appetite.
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| And if he’s lying, well he’s got to come back tonight.
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| I’ll play the bad karma coming back to bite.
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| Here comes big bro, chubbier indeed,
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| succulent mutton putting my stomach in frenzy!
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| I’ve chewed enough wood. |
| I’m hungry and won’t wait.
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| An even chubbier brother, really? |
| You don’t say!
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| If’n it’s untrue, I’m seeing you both ways.
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| If he’s really chubbier, I’m feeding the whole day.
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| I’m thinking of skirt steaks. |
| My tummy starts rumbling.
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| It feels like an earthquake… am I going berserk? |
| Wait!
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| Waaaaaaaaughhhh…
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| Later, troll! |
| Hey biggest brother, dry off, salad bar’s open. |