An illustrated version of the traditional folk song in which a father promises the world to his restless baby daughter.

A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off.

The inhabitants of Old Mikamba's farm in Africa, including a baboon, an elephant, and a lion, are described, verse by verse. Includes facts about African animals.

Inch by inch, row by row, a child grows a garden with the help of the rain and the earth. Based on a popular folksong.

The accidental ingestion of a fly leads an old lady to swallow larger and larger animals, ending with a horse that causes her ultimate demise.

"You won't believe why the Old Scientist swallowed a dinosaur, a fern, a rock, a pick, a dustpan, a sifting screen, a pen, and a magnifying glass!"--

After spending the last six years making rock albums, Todd Snider is going back to folk. The album was recorded at Cash Cabin in Hendersonville, TN. Snider wrote the set of songs and played all the instruments on the record, displaying his growth as a musician and vocalist. Of the five songs on which Snider serves up his humorous brand of socio-political commentary, three are performed in the talking blues style.