The Disappointing Pancake

It's always breakfast Thursday nights for dinnertime
 Orange juice, oatmeal, eggs, and waffles served at five
 But once there was something I didn't recognize
 It was harder than the table, so I thought it was my plate
 I hit it with a hammer, but it wouldn't even break
 It slipped upon some syrup and the butter ricocheted
 Then it rolled and it rolled and it rolled and it rolled
 A disappointing pancake
 It rolled and it rolled and it rolled and it rolled
 A disappointing pancake
 Rolling toward the baseball field just down the road
 The pitcher on the mound was winding up to throw
 The crowd yelled, "Batter, batter!" he felt so at home
 He rolled right up to the catcher who had somehow lost his mitt
 Who put the pancake on his hand and like a glove it fit
 And then he caught the final ball he surely would have missed
 And they cheered and they cheered and they cheered and they cheered
 For the disappointing pancake
 They cheered and they cheered and they cheered and they cheered
 The disappointing pancake
 The catcher tossed his pancake mitt into the sky
 The wind picked up, the pancake soared four miles high
 And when it finally landed, it was just in time
 For a bike rider who hit a bump, his tire needed air
 The pancake rolled right in and made a temporary spare
 He pedaled to the bike shop where they'd get a quick repair
 And they rode and they rode and they rode
 And they rode on a disappointing pancake
 They rode and they rode and they rode
 And they rode on a disappointing pancake
 It was a manhole cover in Manhattan]
 A lily pad in Padua
 A sombrero in some little town in Spain
 A satellite in Saddle River
 A knee patch in Saskatchewan
 A coaster on the chilly coast of Maine
 The pancake made its way around the world
 Jumping in and helping where he could
 Then I looked outside and saw a glow
 Maybe it's the moon or just a U. F. O.?
 The pancake fell down from the heavens to my bed
 And landed like a pillow underneath my head
 Where I dreamt sweet pancake dreams, as I slept
 The pancake disappointed me at breakfast, yes, it's true
 But there are many other things that this pancake can do
 I'd like to think that pancakes are a bit like me and you
 And we roll and we roll and we roll and we roll
 Like a disappointing pancake
 We roll and we roll and we roll and we roll
 Like a disappointing pancake
 We roll and we roll and we roll and we roll
 Not so disappointing pancake