My dad gave me one dollar bill <br />'Cause I'm his smartest son, <br />And I swapped it for two shiny quarters <br />'Cause two is more then one! <br />And then I took the quarters <br />And traded them to Lou <br />For three dimes-- I guess he didn't know <br />That three is more than two! <br />Just then, along came old blind Bates <br />And just 'cause he can't see <br />He gave me four nickels for my three dimes, <br />And four is more than three! <br />And I took the nickels to Hiram Coombs <br />Down at the seed-feed store, <br />And the fool gave me five pennies for them, <br />And five is more than four! <br />And I went and showed my dad, <br />And he got red in the cheeks <br />And closed his eyes and shook his head-- <br />Too proud of me to speak!<br /><br />Sheldon Allan Silverstein<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/smart-7/
