The Goose That Laid Golden Eggs

Jack at the Giants’ Castle Door:

These monsters are awfully scraggly and huge

But their goose laid a large  egg of gold

If I could just steal her through subterfuge

We could buy back our cow that I sold 

The Giantess peeking out the kitchen door:

Look at this darling boy at our house

He is clearly in love with our goose

I won’t even check with my ill-tempered spouse 

I’ll just give her to this sweet papoose 

The Giant, looking in the window at Jack:

Who is this evil one here in our castle

Who is stealing our goose’s golden eggs?

It’s time for a brutal, no-holds-barred hassle

I’ll rip off his arms and his legs 

Jack, racing out the door with the goose:

Oh no, the monster giant is after me

I’ve got to climb down this bean stalk

He’ll tear me in pieces if we don’t get free

Let’s go, Mrs. Goose, please don’t squawk

The Giant, coming down the stalk after Jack:

You’ll never get away, you naughty young thief

I’m eighty times bigger than you

I’ll teach you some things about pain and grief 

What awaits you, you haven’t a clue 

Narrator:

Jack raced down that stalk like a rifle shot 

With the lumbering giant in pursuit

The boy grabbed his axe, gave it all that he got 

And the stalk crashed to earth with the brute 

Aaaiiieeehhh!!!  Crash!!!  Kerboom!!!  Aagghhh!!!

Jack’s Mother

Oh Jack, that dead giant fills up our whole yard 

But look, a golden egg from your goose 

Never again will our life be so hard 

Let’s buy back our cow and vamoose

Epilogue

Jack and Jack’s mother 

and the cow 

and the goose 

(and even the Giantess)

lived happily ever after 

THE END OF THE STORY