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'''Jimmy Goes to the City''' was [[Arthur Read|Arthur]]'s poem for the poetry contest in "[[I'm a Poet]]".
'''Jimmy Goes to the City''' is a poem by [[Arthur Read]]. It is featured in the episode "[[I'm a Poet]]," ''[[Arthur and the Poetry Contest]]'', and the "[[Poetry Club (track)|Poetry Club]]" track on ''[[Arthur and Friends: The First Almost Real Not Live CD (or Tape)]]''. As D.W. mentions in ''Arthur and the Poetry Contest'', the poem is a parody of King Kong.


==Poem==
'''Jimmy Goes to the City'''
''Jimmy was a happy ape until some hunters caught him''<br>
by Arthur Read
''He liked the jungle better than the city where they brought him''


''The city was louder; the city was meaner''<br>
Jimmy was a happy ape
''Even the dirt in the jungle was cleaner''
Until some hunters caught him
 
He liked the jungle better than
''So Jimmy made a daring escape''<br>
The city where they brought him
''The hunters were suddenly minus one ape''
The city was louder
 
The city was meaner
''He climbed the tallest building''<br>
Even the dirt in the jungle was cleaner
''Because from there he'd see''<br>
So Jimmy made a daring escape!
''How far away the jungle was''<br>
The hunters were suddenly minus one ape!
''From the middle of the city''
He climbed the tallest building
 
Because from there he'd see
''Jimmy jumped into a passing plane''<br>
How far away the jungle was
''But the pilot didn't wait for him to explain''
From the middle of the city.
 
Jimmy jumped into a passing plane
''Jimmy flew back to the jungle and told his ape''<br>
But the pilot didn't wait for him to explain
''friends in their lair''<br>
Jimmy flew back to the jungle
''"The city's okay for a visit,''<br>
And told his ape friends in their lair
''but you couldn't make me live there."''
"The city's okay for a visit
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But you couldn't make me live there."
==External links==
*The poem on the PBS Kids website (archived page): http://web.archive.org/web/19990508152232/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/arthur/fern/poems/arthur.html
[[Category:Poetry]]
[[Category:Poetry]]

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