(3) exits

Please come and let me down
He would shout.
He would throw his key down
to someone in the street.
That might work if
Locked out on the deck.

But it doesn't solve the fire problem.
That has to be fast
and he'd be inside.
He might be able to let himself out the window legs first
and drop down to the top of the porch below
(without tumbling to the ground?)
and clamber down a column.

(2) persistence of taunts past

One day I found myself singing the ditty in my head. Except I remembered it as:

I'M NOTHING BUT A NOTHING
A NOTHING A NOTHING
I'M NOTHING BUT A NOTHING
I'M NOT A THING AT ALL.

AT LEAST A BAT IS SOMETHING
A RUM THING A DUMB THING
BUT I'M NOTHING BUT A NOTHING
I'M NOT A THING AT ALL.


I googled and found the Disney lyrics.
I also found I was not alone in being haunted:

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From Jim and Joyce Quitter : We are an old couple in our 80's and can barely remember this cartoon. We had some help in finding the exact cartoon when we could not remember the source of the song "You're Nothing but a Nothing." We had gone around the house humming the tune and singing some of the words that we remembered. It was driving us crazy. None of our acquaintenances could help. We inquired from ASCAP and a really nice guy was good enough to direct us to this web site. Still haven't found the lyrics, but we're a lot wiser than we were before. Two old people made happy.

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From David Stickney (BOSTON, MA) - on Amazon.com, he reviewed a release of Dumbo, the Flying Elephant, which included the cartoon short: The Flying Mouse:
The anniversary edition is awesome, with remastered artwork, many scenes are much more visible than previous versions, but BEWARE...If you are buying this for kids, PREVIEW the extra animated shorts before letting your kids see them. Our 3 yr old, who loves spooky stuff, is terrified by "The flying mouse" short, because there are bats that taunt the mouse (who is magically given bat wings) and sing a song titled "You're nothing but a nothing" looking very scarey. At one point he sees a reflection of himself as a scarey bat, and now our daughter won't take a bath because she's "afraid of the bats"...Thanks Disney.
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(1) lyrics- Disney cartoon

TO BE A BAT'S A BUM THING
A SILLY AND A DUMB THING
BUT AT LEAST A BAT IS SOMETHING
AND YOU'RE NOT A THING AT ALL
YOU'RE NOT A THING AT ALL

YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A NOTHING
NOTHING BUT A NOTHING
YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A NOTHING
YOU'RE NOT A THING AT ALL

YOU'RE NOT A THING AT ALL
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from: Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shortsl

The Flying Mouse
Release Date July 14, 1934
Running Time 9:17

Synopsis

A small mouse saves a butterfly from a spider's web. The butterfly turns out to be a fairy who gives the mouse one wish : to be able to fly. But his wish turns out to be not quite what he bargained for.