A short round-the-world poem about who sings and where, from birds to sailors to children in Japan and Spain. Its list-like structure makes it easy to read with a bit of a tune.
From A Child's Garden of Verses. See the whole collection.
Of speckled eggs the birdie sings
And nests among the trees;
The sailor sings of ropes and things
In ships upon the seas.
The children sing in far Japan,
The children sing in Spain;
The organ with the organ man
Is singing in the rain.
Public domain. Text from A Child's Garden of Verses (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1885), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition