Number soup, number soup,
Throws your lunchtime for a loop.
Just can’t eat it—too distracting.
You keep adding and subtracting.
2 and 5 add up to 7.
1 and 1 construct eleven—
Subtract 8 and quick as can be,
You will have to find a 3.
There’s a 6, or (spin it round)
Could it be a 9 you’ve found?
Haven’t had a spoonful yet?
That’s why soup is alphabet.