# Captain Kangaroo video: "Changing of the Guard"

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**Created:** [May 20, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kangaroo-video-changing-of-the-guard/540088 "2010-05-20T02:25:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kangaroo-video-changing-of-the-guard/540088/2 "2010-05-20T02:30:37Z")

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The poem is by AA Milne

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> BUCKINGHAM PALACE by A.A. Milne
> 
> They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace -  
> Christopher Robin went down with Alice.  
> Alice is marrying one of the guard.  
> “A soldier’s life is terrible hard,”  
> Says Alice.
> 
> They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace -  
> Christopher Robin went down with Alice.  
> We saw a guard in a sentry-box.  
> “One of the sergeants looks after their socks,”  
> Says Alice.
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> They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace -  
> Christopher Robin went down with Alice.  
> We looked for the King, but he never came.  
> “Well, God take care of him, all the same,”  
> Says Alice.
> 
> They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace -  
> Christopher Robin went down with Alice.  
> They’ve great big parties inside the grounds.  
> “I wouldn’t be King for a hundred pounds,”  
> Says Alice.
> 
> They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace -  
> Christopher Robin went down with Alice.  
> A face looked out, but it wasn’t the King’s.  
> “He’s much too busy a-signing things,”  
> Says Alice.
> 
> They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace -  
> Christopher Robin went down with Alice.  
> “Do you think the King knows all about me?”  
> “Sure to, dear, but it’s time for tea,”  
> Says Alice.

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