But the things they did in Boston town Are done in picture and written down In Volume One by Teddy’s paw, The jolliest book you ever saw. It tells how they captured Bunker Hill And worked like soldiers with stubborn will; And how they got lost in Boston squares Where criss-cross streets run everywheres;
And the time they had at Plymouth Rock When trying to make forefathers talk; And the auto ride to Lexington Which nearly cost them all their fun, For TEDDY-G would chauffeur be And he ran that car like sixty-three; It didn’t run; he made it sail And landed himself and his mate in jail.
The story tells of their Harvard tricks, Where they got themselves in another mix In getting degrees, a double-L-D, Which didn’t fit well on TEDDY-G; It tells about the talking machine, The funniest thing they had ever seen;
How they danced a two-step and sang as well And heard Uncle Josh his stories tell; It tells of the time when they went to see Where the Boston patriots made good tea In seventeen hundred and sixty-three;
And then of their sail in a little skiff, And how a storm hit them a biff And sent them out on the ocean wide, Half-way across to the other side; And how at noon there came in sight A tower of ice all glistening white;
And how they met away out, there On this iceberg white a polar bear; And the stories he told of a northern pole Which was never seen by a living soul, But it carried a flag both night and day, The stars and stripes of the U. S. A.;
And the story tells of the rescue made And how the steamer crowds hurrahed As “Yankee Doodle” the brass band played; And then it tells, this jolly book, How reporters met them at Sandy Hook And asked them questions and pictures took; And of New York and its buildings high, And how the bears made money fly, And dressed in style to see the town, To do Fifth Avenue up and down;
And the guide they hired, wee Muddy Pete, A lad whose home was on the street, And his little dog, a terrier white, Pete’s boon companion day and night. The story tells of the circus show Where the two bears helped to make things go;
How like heroes of a hundred fights The Roosevelt Bears in colored tights Stepped in the ring to dance or sing, To ride or tumble or anything.