Runny Babbit

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Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook is the title of the last children's book by Shel Silverstein. A work in progress for the better part of 20 years, the book was published posthumously in 2005. The book is largely comprised of spoonerisms in rhyming verse; e.g.:

Runny Babbit knearned boss

And made a swat and ross

And now he sadly will moss

He bight have done it sauce

Way down in the green woods where all the animals play

They do things and they say things in a different sort of way

Instead of sayin' "Purple hat"

They say, "Hurple pat"

And instead of sayin' "feed the cat"

They say, "ceed the fat"

So if you say, "Lets bead a rook"

That's as billy as can see!

You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk

Just like mim and he