Es war einmal ein Huhn Das hatte nichts zu tun. Es gähnte alle an. Doch als es so den Mund aufriß Da sagte ein Huhn: Je nun Du hast ja keinen einzigen Zahn! Da ging das Huhn zum Zahnarzt Und kaufte sich ein Gebiß. Jetzt kann es ruhig gähnen Mit seinen neuen Zähnen!
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Authorship:
- by Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), no title, appears in Tierverse [a long poem split into stanzas], no. 7 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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