Shortish poem for 8yo to learn and recite?

[Turquoise]

Can anyone suggest a simple, hopefully amusing poem for dd to recite in her class assembly? Got to be longer than a limerick, but not much longer as she has to learn it off by heart.
She was going to do 'The Ning nang nong' but another kid is doing it adn I'm stumped.

Can you make one up between you? might be easier to remember if it is your own?!

"W"
The King Called for his wise men all
To find a rhyme for W
When they had thought for a good long time
But failed to come up with a singe line
I'm sorry, said he, to trouble you

Can't remember who it's by, and I may be quoting it slightly incorrectly since I'm typing from memory.

Actually, it's probably

W"
The King Called for his wise men all
To find a rhyme for W
When they had thought a good long time (NO FOR, SORRY)!
But failed to come up with a singe line
I'm sorry, said he, to trouble you

Thanks WWW, she's rather taken with that. Might try and add a bit.
We've tried, and failed miserably, to write our own

sorry not got anything in mind but could you try Pam Ayres or similar? Some of those are really catchy for kids and amusing too....

How about this one -

The Keys to the Universe

The nervous man across the street
Is searching his front pocket
And now he?s looking near the curb
By where he parked his rocket
That ship can take him far from here
In space is where he?ll dock it
But first he?s got to find his keys
Or else he can?t unlock it!
--Jeff Mondak

How about the Owl and the Pussycat - the first verse?

Off he sent them again and again
this time to rhyme with b
but when they failed he wailed and wailed
"oh woe, oh woe is me!"

Any good as a (made up!) second verse?

What about something from Winnie the Pooh?
IIRC
The more it snows, tiddley pom
The more it goes, tiddley pom
On snowing

And nobody knows, tiddley pom
How cold my toes, tiddley pom
Are growing.

(there are more verses, I think, and she could do the prose introduction and ending which are also funny)

And there's a nice one about (again IIRC)

When I was one I was just begun
When I was two I was nearly new
When I was three I was barely me
When I was four I was not much more
When I was five ..... (can't remember)
But now I'm six I'm as clever as clever
So I think I'll be six for ever and ever.

Or Spike Milligan?
(IIRC)

I must go down to the sea again
The lonely sea and the sky
I left my pants and socks there
Out on the sand to dry

Or look up Alice in Wonderland - there are a few funny poems in there. Or Winnie the Pooh again:

They're changing guards at Buckingham Palace
Christopher Robin went down with Alice
Alice is marrying one of the guards
A soldier's life is terribly hard
Said Alice
(plus as many of the other verses as she can manage).

Thanks, these are all brilliant suggestions.

She likes Pam Ayres teeth one but would never learn it all, same with the Lewis Carroll etc.

She could always just do one verse of any poem she likes.

This might be a bit long, but it's a fun poem and fairly easy to learn:

Daddy Fell into the Pond.

Everyone grumbled. The sky was grey.
We had nothing to do and nothing to say.
We were nearing the end of a dismal day,
And there seemed to be nothing beyond,
THEN
Daddy fell into the pond!

And everyone's face grew merry and bright,
And Timothy danced for sheer delight.
"Give me the camera, quick, oh quick!
He's crawling out of the duckweed."
Click!

Then the gardener suddenly slapped his knee,
And doubled up, shaking silently,
And the ducks all quacked as if they were daft
And is sounded as if the old drake laughed.

O, there wasn't a thing that didn't respond
WHEN
Daddy fell into the pond!

I eat my peas with honey,
I've done it all my life,
It makes the peas taste funny
But it keeps them on the knife.

I think that's Edward Lear isn't it?....anything my him or maybe Spike Milligan would be worth looking into I reckon.

Actually looks like the "peas with honey" one is by the ever prolific "anon" but I would say it's well known enough to use, (and definitely try Lear & Milligan).

Said a tiny Ant
To the Elephant
"Mind how you tread in this clearing!"

But alas! Cruel fate!
She was crushed by the weight
Of an Elephant, hard of hearing.

Spike Milligan