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
and the little one said oh my goodness I must stay at home
and everytime I hear a growl I'll know the tiger's on the prowl
but I'll be really safe you know
The elephant he told me so
And everyone was nervvy, oh yeah!
and the message was spread to zebra, mongoose,
and the dirty hippopotamus
who wallowed in the mud
and chewed his spicy hippoplanckton food
and tended to ignore the word
prefering to survey a herd of stupid water bison, oh yeah!
and 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 much prefer something to chew
and you're all too scant, oh yeah!"
He ate the elephant...