Classic Poem

As soon as I'm in bed at night
And snugly settled down,
The little girl I am by day
Goes very suddenly away,
And then I'm Mrs. Brown.

I have a family of six,
And all of them have names,
The girls are Joyce and Nancy Maud,
The boys are Marmaduke and Claude
And Percival and James.

We have a house with twenty rooms
A mile away from town;
I think it's good for girls and boys
To be allowed to make a noise —
And so does Mr. Brown.

We do the most exciting things,
Enough to make you creep;
And on and on and on we go —
I sometimes wonder if I know
When I have gone to sleep.