16 My Best Ice Cream

My Best Ice Cream

By Terry Jones

The best ice cream 

I think I've ever tasted

Was the one I feel in 

When I was only ten. 

It was huge, I tell you--

The size of a small mountain, 

And there is no telling

When we'll see its like again.

The best stick of rock

I think I've ever eaten

Was the one I climbed up 

When I was only four. 

It took six day,

Then I started eating downwards

And when midnight chimed

I had gnawed it to the fool!

The best fizzy drink 

I think I've ever swallowed

Was the one I sailed across

When I was only eight.

It was wide across

As the great Pacific Ocean, 

And I drank it with an albatross

Whose name was Kate.