The Elephant-Flanders & Swann

[ti:The Elephant] [ar:Flanders & Swann] [al:Animals] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Elephant (大象) - Flanders & Swann [00:05.45]A elephant's life is tedious laborious and slow [00:10.17] [00:10.94]I've been an elephant all me life [00:12.63] [00:13.25]So I blooming well ought to know [00:15.46] [00:18.20]He never forgets a name or face ooooh [00:21.31] [00:22.63]He knows his way from place to place ooooh [00:25.20] [00:26.98]Remembers to be dutiful [00:28.24] [00:29.00]And when to push and when to pull [00:31.52]An when he's dead the dealer calls [00:33.95]And buys his tusks for billiard balls ooooh [00:37.85] [00:39.06]And all because an elephant's got a perfect memory [00:44.23] [00:44.98]That wasn't the life for me [00:46.70] [00:47.51]So I'm suffering form amnesia [00:51.76]My mind's a perfect blank [00:53.30] [00:53.86]Now life is very much easier [00:56.09]Amnesia's to thank [00:57.42] [00:57.96]I'm being psychoanalysed [01:00.14]I lie on a divan [01:01.43] [01:01.98]And flap me ears and try to look a barmy as I can [01:06.24] [01:07.01]I'm an Introverted Elephocentric Hypochondriac [01:11.36] [01:12.03]And I'll stick in the Elephant's nursing home [01:14.73]Till I get me memory back [01:16.50] [01:19.47]I'm suffering from Hysteria [01:20.72] [01:21.51]I nearly split me sides [01:22.92] [01:23.51]To watch the others get wearier [01:25.20]Of giving children rides [01:26.77] [01:27.52]I've told my psychoanalyst [01:29.65]That I'm a sacred cow [01:30.94] [01:31.53]I'd like to carry a Howdah [01:33.20]But I can't remember how [01:36.62]I'm an Introverted Elephocentric Hypochondriac [01:40.74] [01:41.28]And I'll stick in the Elephant's nursing home [01:43.70]Till I get me memory back [01:45.13] [01:48.38]I suffer from Schizophrenia [01:50.40]It comes on me in spells [01:52.21]Sometimes I'm King of Armenia [01:54.57]At others I'm Orson Welles [01:56.35]I tell them I'm Napoleon [01:58.34]And all that sort of bunk [02:00.15]They never guess that all the time [02:02.06] [02:03.18]I'm laughing up me trunk [02:04.85] [02:05.79]I'm an Introverted Elephocentric Hypochondriac [02:10.39]And I'll stick in the Elephants' nursing home [02:12.30] [02:12.87]Till I get me memory back [02:14.62] [02:15.22]Tra-tiddle-tumty-tumty tra-tiddletum [02:18.15] [02:18.86]Practising me trumpet half the nigh [02:21.79] [02:22.46]Tra-tiddle-tumty-tumty tra-tiddletum [02:25.97]And I'll stick in the Elephants' nursing home [02:28.35]Till I get me memory get me memory [02:29.88]Get me memory back