Are You Quoting Gibberish Again?

It was a unanimous decision. Callooh! Callay! This year we will be "performing" Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll at our annual Homeschool Graduation and Presentation Night. If we can get through it. Oh, the kids know it well enough. The problem is that we keep dissolving into laughter throughout the recitation. And of course, Edison doesn't help by trying to change "slithey toves" into "slithery toes" every once in awhile. Unfortunately, we all have a different funny spot: for Edison it's "galumphing," for St. George it's "vorpel," and for Rose it's "snicker-snack." I am the only sane one left.

Jabberwocky

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought--
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One two! One two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
---Lewis Carroll