This is a fun traditional Passover song that takes about four hours to sing correctly.
One little goat, one little goat
That my father bought for two zuzim
The retail price is three zuzim
My father gets a discount because he buys a lot of goats
Along came a cat and ate the goat
Which sounds ridiculous until you realize that this song is an allegory about the history of Israel, with the cat symbolizing Assyria.
Along came a dog, symbolizing Babylonia, which bit the cat
Guess where it bit the cat?
On its ASS(yria)!
Ha-ha! We are having some fun with this traditional allegorical song!
Then along came a stick
Apparently, it was a walking stick
Stop it! We are killing ourselves with this wordplay!
Anyway, the stick symbolized Persia by hitting the dog
Along came a fire, aka Greece, and burned the stick
Along came water in the form of Rome and put out the fire
Along came an ox symbolizing the Saracens
Which, according to Wikipedia, is either an early Arab tribe
Or an English professional rugby team
Whoever they were, they drank the water
Along came a butcher, symbolizing the Crusaders, and killed the ox
Along came the Angel of Death, symbolizing the Ottomans—which sounds like a horde of lethal footstools, right?—and killed the butcher
Along came the Holy One, symbolizing the Holy One, and slew the Angel of Death
And a partridge in a pear tree