Raggedy rainbow had beads in her hair
Every color that you could imagine was there,
Raggedy rainbow was such a nice child
But now and again she could be very wild.

Raggedy rainbow was walking to school
With her beads shining brightly, she felt very cool,
Raggedy rainbow was dreaming again
And tripped on a sunbeam in tumbledown lane.

She heard someone laughing behind the red wall
That bordered the gardens of pixie dust hall,
Then up popped a head full of bright ginger curls
With a mouth busy chewing on peppermint whirls.

It was Raggedy's step-sister Cotton wool Kate
Who was doing her best to make Raggedy late,
But Raggedy Rainbow was nobody's fool
So off they both scampered, past pixie dust pool.

In fairy dell glade, they decided to play
And soon had forgotten the time of the day,
Playing Hop-Scotch with elves in the warm summer sun
Was better than lessons, and so much more fun.

Then hunger was telling them tea time was near
So the elves bid farewell with a smile and a tear,
And as they walked home in the twilight's soft glow
They bumped into their teacher, miss Wintersley-Snow.

She said ' Were you both disappointed to know,
That the school had been closed for the travelling show?'
We just smiled a sick smile, and we went on our way
Truant's not as much fun on a school holiday…