Effervescing Elephant |
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An Effervescing Elephant
with tiny eyes and great big trunk
once
whispered to the tiny ear
the ear of one inferior
that by next June he'd
die, oh yeah!
because the tiger would roam.
The little one said: "Oh my
goodness I must stay at home!
and every time I hear a growl
I'll know the
tiger's on the prowl
and I'll be really safe, you know
the elephant he
told me so."
Everyone was nervy, oh yeah!
and the message was spread
to
zebra, mongoose, and the dirty hippopotamus
who wallowed in the mud and
chewed
his spicy hippo-plankton food
and tended to ignore the
word
preferring to survey a herd
of stupid water bison, oh yeah!
And
all the jungle took fright,
and ran around for all the day and the
night
but all in vain, because, you see,
the tiger came and said: "Who
me?!
You know, I wouldn't hurt not one of you.
I'd much prefer something
to chew
and you're all to scant." oh yeah!
He ate the
Elephant