The Elephant-Flanders & Swann

[ti:The Elephant] [ar:Flanders & Swann] [al:The Complete Flanders & Swann] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Elephant (大象) - Flanders & Swann [00:05.91]A elephant's life is tedious laborious and slow [00:11.70]I've been an elephant all me life so I blooming well ought to know [00:19.03]He never forgets a name or face ooooh [00:23.41]He knows his way from place to place ooooh [00:27.91]Remembers to be dutiful [00:29.84]And when to push and when to pull [00:32.37]An when he's dead the dealer calls [00:34.99]And buys his tusks for billiard balls ooooh [00:40.13]And all because an elephant's got a perfect memory [00:46.46]That wasn't the life for me [00:48.60]So I'm suffering form amnesia [00:53.28]My mind's a perfect blank [00:55.22]Now life is very much easier [00:57.31]Amnesia's to thank; [00:59.53]I'm being psychoanalysed [01:01.70]I lie on a divan [01:03.57]And flap me ears and try to look a barmy as I can [01:08.80]I'm an Introverted Elephocentric Hypochondriac [01:13.31] [01:14.00]And I'll stick in the Elephant's nursing home [01:16.50]Till I get me memory back [01:18.37] [01:21.58]I'm suffering from Hysteria [01:23.69]I nearly split me sides [01:25.55]To watch the others get wearier [01:27.53]Of giving children rides; [01:29.70]I've told my psychoanalyst [01:31.83]That I'm a sacred cow [01:33.76]I'd like to carry a Howdah [01:35.95]But I can't remember how [01:39.05]I'm an Introverted Elephocentric Hypochondriac [01:43.74]And I'll stick in the Elephant's nursing home [01:45.89]Till I get me memory back [01:51.11]I suffer from Schizophrenia [01:53.20]It comes on me in spells [01:55.01]Sometimes I'm King of Armenia [01:57.44]At others I'm Orson Welles [01:59.22]I tell them I'm Napoleon [02:01.22]And all that sort of bunk [02:03.06]They never guess that all the time [02:05.17]I'm laughing up me trunk [02:08.92]I'm an Introverted Elephocentric Hypochondriac [02:13.50]And I'll stick in the Elephants' nursing home [02:15.67]Till I get me memory back [02:19.33]Tra-tiddle-tumty-tumty tra-tiddletum [02:22.34]Practising me trumpet half the night [02:25.83]Tra-tiddle-tumty-tumty tra-tiddletum [02:29.53]And I'll stick in the Elephants' nursing home [02:31.72]Till I get me memory get me memory get me memory back