The Elephant Song-Ian Wallace/Donald Swann

[ti:The Elephant Song] [ar:Ian Wallace] [al:Mud, Glorious Mud! The Best of Flanders & Swann] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Elephant Song (From 'Wallace's Private Zoo', 1956) - Ian Wallace/Donald Swann [00:06.25]A elephant's life is tedious laborious and slow [00:11.07] [00:12.26]I've been an elephant all me life [00:14.61]So I blooming well ought to know [00:16.62] [00:20.04]He never forgets a name or face oh [00:23.71] [00:24.88]He knows his way from place to place oh [00:28.69] [00:29.50]Remembers to be dutiful [00:31.12] [00:31.71]And when to push and when to pull [00:34.11]An when he's dead the dealer calls [00:36.43]And buys his tusks for billiard balls ooooh [00:40.91] [00:41.63]And all because an elephant's got a perfect memory [00:46.53] [00:47.48]That wasn't the life for me [00:49.21] [00:49.90]So I'm suffering form amnesia [00:53.90] [00:54.44]My mind's a perfect blank [00:56.07] [00:56.68]Now life is very much easier [00:58.47] [00:59.29]Amnesia's to thank [01:00.69] [01:01.49]I'm being psychoanalysed [01:03.93]I lie on a divan [01:05.46] [01:06.17]And flap me ears [01:07.31]And try to look a barmy as I can [01:11.20]I'm an Introverted Elephocentric Hypochondriac [01:16.07] [01:16.79]And I'll stick in the Elephant's nursing home [01:18.83] [01:19.61]Till I get me memory back [01:21.25] [01:25.47]I'm suffering from Hysteria [01:27.50]I nearly split me sides [01:29.05] [01:29.83]To watch the others get wearier [01:31.41] [01:32.06]Of giving children rides [01:33.62] [01:34.26]I've told my psychoanalyst [01:36.47]That I'm a sacred cow [01:37.92] [01:38.46]I'd love to carry a Howdah [01:40.82]But I can't remember how [01:44.66]I'm an Introverted Elephocentric Hypochondriac [01:50.19]And I'll stick in the Elephant's nursing home [01:52.30] [01:52.93]Till I get me memory back [01:54.41] [01:58.40]I suffer from Schizophrenia [01:59.69] [02:00.52]It comes on me in spells [02:02.13] [02:02.86]Sometimes I'm King of Armenia [02:04.41] [02:04.99]At others I'm Orson Welles [02:06.62] [02:07.23]I tell them I'm Napoleon [02:09.33]And all that sort of bunk [02:10.85] [02:11.46]They never guess that all the time [02:13.64] [02:15.77]I'm laughing up me trunk [02:17.53] [02:18.12]I'm an Introverted Elephocentric Hypochondriac [02:23.10] [02:23.62]And I'll stick in the Elephants' nursing home [02:25.65] [02:26.39]Till I get me memory back [02:27.93] [02:28.95]Tra tiddle tumty tumty tra tiddletum [02:32.16] [02:33.13]Practising me trumpet half the night [02:36.72] [02:37.44]Tra tiddle tumty tumty tra tiddletum [02:40.33] [02:41.52]And I'll stick in the Elephants' nursing home [02:43.51] [02:44.29]Till I get me memory get me memory [02:46.51]Get me memory back