Edgar Allan Poe

Lyrics

[PEPPERMINT PATTY] Please, don't let her call on me today, please! Mentally I'm begging on my knees, please! Please and I'll do anything you say! Only please don't let her call on me today! [LUCY] She's gonna ask us something on Edgar Allan Poe! I know it, I just know that any moment now! [SALLY] She's gonna call on me and ask me something I don't know! [LUCY/SALLY] On Edgar Allan- [LINUS] Poe! Edgar Allan, American poet born in 1809! [CHARLIE BROWN] He wrote "Cock Robin" and "My Darling Clementine"! [LINUS] Published "Tamerlane" in 1827! [SALLY] If you're listening, Heaven, Heaven, help me, help me! [LUCY] She's gonna ask us something on Edgar Allan Poe! [PEPPERMINT PATTY] Please don't let her call on me today, please! [LUCY] I know it, I just know it any moment now! [SALLY] She's gonna call on me and ask me something I don't know! [PEPPERMINT PATTY] Please, and I'll do anything you say, please! [LUCY] Don't let the world find out what I don't know about... [GIRLS] Edgar, Allan... [LINUS] Poe! Edgar Allan, stories and essays Wrote "The History of Marie Roget"! [CHARLIE BROWN] "Hiawatha" and "The Road to Mandalay"! [LINUS] Joined the army in the spring of '27! [SALLY] Are you listening, Heaven? [CHARLIE BROWN] Dickens' "Christmas Carol"! [SALLY] Help me! [LUCY] She's gonna ask us something on Edgar Allan Poe! [PEPPERMINT PATTY] Please, oh please, don't let her catch my eye! Try! [LUCY] I know it, I just know that any moment now! [SALLY] She's gonna call on me and me something I don't know! [LUCY] If she calls on me today, I'll die, die! Don't let the world find out! [PEPPERMINT PATTY] I'll blow it! I know I'll blow it! [LUCY] What I don't know about! [PEPPERMINT PATTY] Please! [LUCY/SALLY] Edgar... [PEPPERMINT PATTY} Please! [LUCY/SALLY] Allan... {LINUS] Poe! Edgar Allan got out of the army! Married Ms. Virginia Clemm! [CHARLIE BROWN] He wrote "Black Sambo" and "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean"! [LINUS] Died in 1849! [SALLY] Tomorrow, I'll be fine! [CHARLIE BROWN] "Sweet Adeline"! [LUCY] She's gonna ask us something on Edgar Allan Poe! [LINUS] He invented onomatopoeia! [LUCY] I know it, I just know that any moment now... [SALLY] She's gonna call on me and ask me something that she knows that I don't know! [CHARLIE BROWN] Robinson Crusoe, and Maria! [BOYS] Edgar Allan, Edgar Allan! [LUCY/SALLY] Don't let the world find out, what I don't know about! Let's leave the world in doubt, what we don't know about! [ALL] Edgar... Allan... [PEPPERMINT PATTY, spoken] What? Yes ma'am, the answer's 5! 8? 83? Oh, can I please just spell Mississippi? [PEPPERMINT PATTY] (ALL, excluding PEPPERMINT PATTY) M-I-S-S-S-I-S-S-S-I-P-P-I (Poe) [ALL] Edgar Allan Poe!