Tongue Twister Poems
Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2014 06:45 AM

I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's mate;
And I'm only plucking pheasants 'cause the pheasant plucker's late.
I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's son;
And I'm only plucking pheasants till the pheasant pluckers come.

A tutor who tooted the flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
"Is it tougher to toot
Or to tutor two tooters to toot?"

A certain young fellow named Beebee
Wished to marry a lady named Phoebe.
"But," he said. "I must see
What the minister's fee be
Before Phoebe be Phoebe Beebee."

A skunk sat on a stump.
The stump thought the skunk stunk.
The skunk thought the stump stunk .
What stunk the skunk or the stump?

If Freaky Fred Found Fifty Feet of Fruit
And Fed Forty Feet to his Friend Frank,
How many Feet of Fruit did Freaky Fred Find?

A tree toad loved a she-toad
Who lived up in a tree.
He was a two-toed tree toad,
But a three-toed toad was she.
The two-toed tree toad tried to win
The three-toed she-toad's heart,
For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground
That the three-toed tree toad trod.
But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain.
He couldn't please her whim.
From her tree toad bower
With her three-toed power,
The she-toad vetoed him. 

You've no need to light a night-light
On a light night like tonight.
For a night-light's light's a slight light,
And tonight's a night that's light.
When a night's light, like tonight's light,
It is really not quite right
To light night-lights with their slight lights
On a light night like tonight.

A flea and a fly in a flue-
Said the fly, "Oh what should we do?"
Said the flea, "Let us fly."
Said the fly, "Let us flee."
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

If a Hottentot taught
A Hottentot tot to talK,
Ere the tot could totter.
Ought the Hottentot tot
Be taught to say ought or naught?
Or, what ought to be taught 'er?

Ed Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not.
So it is better to be Shott than Nott.
Some say Nott was not shot,
But Shott says he shot Nott.
Either the shot Shott shot and Nott was not shot, or Nott was shot.
If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot.
But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott, the shot was Shott, not Nott.
However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott -- but Nott.
So, Ed Nott was shot, and that's hot! Is it not?

Bitty Batter bought some butter;
“But,” said she, “this butter’s bitter.
If I put it in my batter,
It will make my batter bitter.”
So she bought some better butter,
And she put the better butter in the bitter batter,
And made the bitter batter better."

Good, better, best
Never let it rest
'til your good is better,
And your better is best.