On a Diet

First she gave up smoking.
Then she gave up gin.
Then she gave up chocolate cake.
she wanted to be thin.

Then she gave up breakfast.
Then she gave up lunch.
On lazy Sunday mornings
she even gave up brunch.

No matter what she gave up,
her skirts were very tight.

'Cause she ate twelve cans of tuna fish
for dinner every night.

Graham, Carolyn. 1978. Jazz Chants: Rhythms of American English for Students of English as a Second Language. New York: Oxford University Press.

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