Just for fun, here are Peter Paul and Mary singing the most playful of songs, one about a toy. But not just any toy! Nope, this one is a Marvelous toy!

Tom Paxton composed the song in the 1950s. When legendary producer Milt Okun heard him play it Okun made Paxton the first writer signed to Okun’s Cherry Lane Music Publishing Company, which went on to publish and copyright approximately 150,000 separate works of music.