Black Tears and Marshmallows

See the House on the Highway?

The Carter kids grew up right there

The railroad yard was located out back

This story is true, I swear!

Clickety clack clickety clack

The ferries would cross the channel
From Sydney to Port-aux-Basques

The workers unloaded the ferries

Putting the railway cars on the tracks

Each car would be filled with a load of goods

That would be taken to far away places

Most of the cars went on their way

And a few would have to stay

The railway cars that stayed behind

Were temporarily stored out back

near the House on the Highway

on an storage railroad track

Clickety clack clickety clack

Catherine, Gerald and some of their friends

Were in the storehouse where they played
Eating sweet marshmallows

Unaware of Gerald's mischevious tirade

Then the CN police came snooping around

They were looking for someone you see

Someone had broken into a railway car

There was missing marshmallow treats!

What would they do? Oh no! Oh no!

This was really really bad

because the manager of the railroad

was Catherine and Gerald's Dad! 

So they did the only thing they knew

They hid inside the coal bin

They were in trouble...you bet they knew

Shaking and quivering their chins

Well of course the police did find them

 With quivering chins and big black tears
Blackened completely from head to toe

There was even coal dust in their ears!

They were all sent home to have a bath

And were put to bed without supper

But that's okay and only because

Their bellies were full of marshmallows!