Today's the day they give babies away...
Today's the day they give babies away with a half a pound of tea
My folks added the phrase: just open the lid, examine the kid, and there you'll find the guarantee. Why they added it, I don't know, except that there is some rhyme to it.
[The song, in multiple versions, is about a hundred years old - Fred MacMurray's character sings a verse of it in the 1947 movie "The Egg and I," and it already had white whiskers on it. - Bac.]