In An Elephant World

In An Elephant World
by Michael Mark & Tom Chapin
© 1996 HCD Music & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

An elephant boy and an elephant girl,
Growing up gray in an elephant world.
Elephant child sure is cute,
Walking around in a elephant suit.

Munch a lunch, munch a lunch.
Munch munch a lunch lunch.
Munch a munch a bunch a
Bunch a lunch lunch lunch.

When the elephants munch
They’re quite intense.
They like the grasses and the grainses
And the leaveses on the treeses
And the melons and the apples
And they’re pulling up
And knocking down the farmer’s fence.
No, no, don’t go into the farmer’s field,
No, no, don’t go into the farmer’s field,
No, no, don’t go into the farmer’s field,
He catch you there he shout, “Keep out!”

An elephant’s day is a swing and a sway
And a roll in the dust to keep the flies away.
Elephant secrets they keep in a trunk,
Next to a whole bunch of elephant junk.
Pachyderm pachyderm.
Pach-pachy derm-derm.
Pachy-pachy-pachy-pachy
Derm-derm-derm.

The elephant’s trunk is for self-defense
And for eating and for drinking
And for washing and for scratching
And for waving and for spanking
And for pulling up
And knocking down the farmer’s fence.
No, no, don’t go into the farmer’s field,
No, no, don’t go into the farmer’s field,
No, no, don’t go into the farmer’s field,
He catch you there he shout, “Keep out!”

Elephant child sure is cute,
Walking around in a elephant suit.
Elephant girl and an elephant boy
Are a papa and a mama elephant’s joy.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's Around The World And Back Again CD.

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