If you chase me, I will run

In the shade and in the sun,

But you never, never can catch me!

For round a bough I’ll creep,

Playing hide-and-seek so sly,

Or through the leaves Bo-peep,

With my little shining eye.

Ha, ha, ha! ha, ha, ha! ha, ha, ha!

“Up and down I run and frisk,

With my bushy tail to whisk