Sally McNally

There once was a girl named Sally McNally,

She had fire engine red hair,

And lots of little curly curl, curls,

But most of all,
Sally McNally - was a happy little girl,

Sally McNally was playing in the park under the smiling summer sun,

Jumping rope, and having lots and lots and lots of fun,

She was blowing ginormous, pink bubble gum bubbles,

Bubbles so big, she could almost float away,

As she almost floated away, Sally McNally saw my unhappy heart,

Huddled with a tiny red haired girl, named, Sparky Clark,

But, before I tell you about, Sparky Clark,

And why she was huddled with my unhappy heart,

I have to admit,
It was all my fault,

 

My hot temper had gotten the best of me,

I’d had a bad day, said some ugly things to my friends,

My happy heart was not happy with me,

Because I was only thinking of - me,

So my happy heart shrank to the size of a bumblebee,

And flew out of my chest,

It flew far away, and hid under an empty wooden park bench,

And that is where, my now unhappy heart, met, Sparky Clark,

Bamboozled, Ramshackled, Hambangled, I was!

Wondering where-o-where had my happy heart buzzed off,

I was hopelessly lost, 

 

As Sparky Clark and my now unhappy heart,

Shivered together under a wooden park bench,

Alone without any happy words, happy hugs, or happy friends,

They felt small, and so they got smaller and smaller and smaller,

Until they were only the size of a tiny flea,
They were so small, they were hard for anyone to see,

But Sally McNally could see,
You see?
Because Sally McNally was happy,
So, she stopped jumping her rope, 

And crawled up to my unhappy heart,

And giggled over at Sparky Clark,

“Hi! I’m Sally McNally, I can see you two playing hide and seek,”

But my unhappy heart and Sparky Clark,

Backed away from Sally McNally into the shadowy dark,

“I'm normally a happy heart and this is Sparky Clark, we're not playing hide and seek here in the park,”  said my unhappy heart,
And Sparky Clark only stared at Sally McNally,
She did not move or make any sounds,
Sparky Clark was so still, it was as if she wanted to appear almost invisible,

 

But Sally McNally beamed a big toothy smile,

“I’ll be your friend Mister Happy Heart!”

“I’ll be your friend too, Sparky Clark, let’s all go play in the park!”

And my unhappy heart thumped, and grinned, and bounced, and twirled,

Thump, thump, thump, - THUMP went my happier heart,

Thumpity, Humpity, Bumbity beats!

“I’ll play with you in the park,” said my happier heart,

But my happier heart frowned over at Sparky Clark,

As Sparky Clark slid behind my now growing happier heart,

“But I don’t want to leave my new friend - Sparky Clark,”

 

“Why are you so sad?” Sally McNally asked.

As she reached over, and gently held Sparky Clark's shivering hands,

“I’m just like you, I have red hair, too, we should be happy friends,
me and you, we're like twins!”

 

“People do mean things to me, even people in my family,”
Sparky Clark whispered to Sally McNally,
"So I ran away, but now I don't know where to go, I'm all alone,"

But Sally McNally gently hugged Sparky Clark,

“I'm sorry” Sally McNally said. "Come with us, we'll be your friend, you're not alone anymore,"

Meanwhile, I was still in the park, searching for my missing happy heart,

That's when I saw something happy from across the rolling bluegrass park,

 As I spied my happy heart, with my sea captains telescope,

My happy heart was with a happy red haired little girl, with curly curl, curls,

And a tiny red haired girl who was almost invisible,

They were running and jumping around Mister Weeping Willow tree,

My happy heart was a happy heart - I could finally see, 

And my happy heart no longer was the size of a tiny flea,

My heart was now even bigger - than me,

So I skampered over to my happy heart,
Happy I found my happy heart before it got dark in the park,

Then my happy heart introduced me to Sally McNally and Sparky Clark,

“They’re my new friends,” said my happier heart, my happier heart frowned at me,

“We’re going to make Mister Willow tree happy, too,” Sally McNally said.

And Mister Willow tree spread out his long willowy branches, 

“I do feel much happier now that Sally McNally stopped by to play,” Mister Willow Tree said.
“It’s fun to be around happy, being happy, having happy fun, under the happy summer sun,"

 

But Sparky Clark had not said anything to me,

And she did not want to play with me,

As she hid within Mister Willow tree’s protective shadow,

She carefully watched me, staring at me,

She was so still, it was as if, she was almost invisible,

 

Sally McNally, and my happy heart, sprang over to hug Sparky Clark,

“People have been mean to Sparky Clark,” said my now huge heart,

“People have not protected her, and let her be, as a little girl should be, so you better listen to me,” said my happy heart, “it’s not all about you, now we have to help Sparky Clark!"

           

“I’m sorry I was mean,” I said to my huge happy heart, “And I'm glad to meet you, Sparky Clark,”

My huge happy heart looked down at me, and smiled at me,

And my happy heart thumped, a little, itty bitty happy thump,   

And then my happy heart shrank down to my normal size,

And leaped back inside my chest,
And said from within my happy hearts proper place,

“It's not right to be mean to me, or anybody, now you can see?"

“I'm sorry,” I said to my happy heart. "I promise not to be mean, and think only of me,”

“Can we be friends?” I asked Sally McNally and Sparky Clark,

“We can be friends,” said Sally McNally as she held Sparky Clark's hand, “but you have to promise to help us protect, Sparky Clark?"
"I promise," I said, sorry that I had been only thinking of me,
But now I could clearly see Sparky Clark,

And my heart thumped,  happy thumps,  and my heart said,
“I love you, and I'm proud of you, that you can see,”

And I said, “I love you, too,"

And we played the rest of the day,

Until Mister Summer Sun got sleepy and waved goodnight,

And then we said hello to Misses Silvery Moon,

She glowed over us as we walked home, she said,

“Good night dear friends, I’ll watch over you all though the night.”

And we got to my families home,

And we went inside to find my family,
I introduced my new friends Sally McNally and Sparky Clark and asked,

“Can Spark Clark stay we us? She needs a safe place to sleep, tonight,”

And my family hugged me, 
They told me they were proud of me,
And that I had learned to see - to love one another,
And think only of me, 

So we all promised, we’d help, Sparky Clark.

And this is the end of this tale,
The day we all promised to help Sparky Clark,

All becaue of Sally McNally,
She had fire engine red hair,

And she had lots of little curly curl, curls,
But most of all, because Sally McNally was happy.