Sometimes we act silly.  I think everyone has probably done this.  I remember my mom teaching me a song as a child that was sung to a dirge-like tune. It went like this:

Did you ever think when the hearse goes by
That some day you're going to die?

The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
The worms play Peknuckle on your snout.
Your eyes fall in, your teeth fall out,
Your hair turns greener than sauer kraut.

Did you ever think when the hearse goes by
That some day you're going to die?

An odd thing to teach a child but then I was kind of an odd kid.  My mother also would recite a poem that she learned in, I believe, college.  As a child it seemed totally stupid but as an adult I get a good share of pleasure out of it.  I'm not even sure why.

Jabberwocky
by Lewis Carroll

'Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
the frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand;:
Long time the manxome foe he sought--
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two!  One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And has thought slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day!  Calooh!  Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.