A Gnu-Michael Flanders/Donald Swann

[ti:A Gnu] [ar:Michael Flanders] [al:Mud, Glorious Mud! The Best of Flanders & Swann] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Gnu (From 'At The Drop of A Hat', Fortune Theatre, 1957) - Michael Flanders/Donald Swann [03:09.52]A year ago last thursday I was strolling in the zoo [03:13.05] [03:14.07]When I met a man who thought he knew the lot [03:16.19] [03:17.72]He was laying down the law about the habbits of baboons [03:21.18] [03:21.70]And the number of quills a porcupine has got [03:23.82] [03:25.62]So I asked him [03:26.25] [03:26.93]What's that creature's name [03:27.84] [03:28.73]And he answered that's a helk [03:30.62] [03:32.35]And I'd have gone on thinking that was true [03:34.01] [03:35.61]If the animal in question hadn't put that chap to shame [03:39.16] [03:40.86]And remarked I ain't a helk I'm a gnu [03:47.36] [03:50.89]I'm a gnu I'm a gnu [03:53.61] [03:54.91]The gnicest work of g nature in the zoo [03:57.67] [03:59.26]I'm a gnu how do you do [04:01.90] [04:03.34]You really oughtta g know w who's w who [04:05.77] [04:07.10]I'm a gnu spelt G N U [04:09.60] [04:10.74]I'm not a camel or a kangaroo [04:13.37] [04:15.07]So let me introduce I'm neither man nor moose [04:19.12] [04:19.80]Oh g no g no g no I'm a gnu [04:22.57] [04:31.68]I had taken furnished lodgings down at rustington on sea [04:35.28] [04:36.25]Whence I travelled on to aston under lyne [04:38.63] [04:40.02]On the second night I stayed there [04:42.04]I was wakened from a dream [04:43.17] [04:43.95]Which I'll tell you all about some other time [04:46.10] [04:47.95]Among the hunting trophies on the wall above my bed [04:51.35] [04:52.30]Stuffed and mounted was a face I thought I knew [04:54.80] [04:57.49]A bison An okapi Could it be a hearty beast [05:06.26] [05:08.84]Then I seem to hear a voice I'm a gnu [05:14.51] [05:17.51]I'm a gnu a g nother gnu [05:20.36] [05:23.16]I wish I could g nash my teeth at you [05:25.83] [05:27.25]I'm a gnu how do you do [05:29.72] [05:31.20]You really oughtta g know w who's w who [05:33.71] [05:34.74]I'm a gnu spelt G N U [05:37.24] [05:38.44]Call me bison or okapi and I'll sue [05:41.11] [05:42.42]Nor am I in the least like that dreadful hearty beast [05:46.76] [05:47.94]Oh g no g no g no I'm a gnu [05:50.76] [05:52.48]G no g no g no I'm a gnu [05:54.62] [05:56.10]G no g no g no I'm a gnu