ZOO NONSENSE
I went to the zoo the other day
And I ate the kangaroo!
Yes, I ate the kangaroo.
The policeman, he came running and the policeman he said,
“Who
Do you think you are? You can’t eat the kangaroo
Right here inside the zoo.”
He got out his big black notebook
And his big black pencil, too,
And his whistle and handcuffs, too.
And monkeys screamed, and lions roared, as lions always do.
“We saw him! We saw him! He ate the kangaroo!
Right here in our zoo.”
Then we drove downtown and they locked me up
In another kind of zoo,
A people kind of zoo.
And the policeman said to the jailer, “Oh boy, I’m telling you,
Better keep this one by himself. He ate a kangaroo.
There’s always something new.”
And after a while, I was put in court
And the judge came into view.
He wasn’t a kangaroo.
The zebra said, “Your honor, I swear to tell you true.
This case is simple as black and white. He ate the kangaroo.
The others saw it, too.
The other animals testified,
The bison and the gnu,
But not the kangaroo.
They cried and sighed and carried and were generally blue.
“What’s happening to the human race? What are we coming to?
When they eat a kangaroo?”
And the judge said, “I know you did it,
And I’m going to sentence you,
With a good stiff sentence, too.
But I’ve looked in all my law books back to 1872,
And I’ve never found a precedent for eating a kangaroo
Not even in a zoo.”
“In all of my twenty-one years on the bench,
And going on twenty-two.
This case is really new.”
“I never have sentenced a person to do what I’m going to sentence
You.
You must go to live for a year and a half in the animal house at the zoo,
In the cage of the kangaroo.”
I went to the zoo the other day
And I ate the kangaroo!
Yes, I ate the kangaroo.
The policeman, he came running and the policeman he said,
“Who
Do you think you are? You can’t eat the kangaroo
Right here inside the zoo.”
He got out his big black notebook
And his big black pencil, too,
And his whistle and handcuffs, too.
And monkeys screamed, and lions roared, as lions always do.
“We saw him! We saw him! He ate the kangaroo!
Right here in our zoo.”
Then we drove downtown and they locked me up
In another kind of zoo,
A people kind of zoo.
And the policeman said to the jailer, “Oh boy, I’m telling you,
Better keep this one by himself. He ate a kangaroo.
There’s always something new.”
And after a while, I was put in court
And the judge came into view.
He wasn’t a kangaroo.
The zebra said, “Your honor, I swear to tell you true.
This case is simple as black and white. He ate the kangaroo.
The others saw it, too.
The other animals testified,
The bison and the gnu,
But not the kangaroo.
They cried and sighed and carried and were generally blue.
“What’s happening to the human race? What are we coming to?
When they eat a kangaroo?”
And the judge said, “I know you did it,
And I’m going to sentence you,
With a good stiff sentence, too.
But I’ve looked in all my law books back to 1872,
And I’ve never found a precedent for eating a kangaroo
Not even in a zoo.”
“In all of my twenty-one years on the bench,
And going on twenty-two.
This case is really new.”
“I never have sentenced a person to do what I’m going to sentence
You.
You must go to live for a year and a half in the animal house at the zoo,
In the cage of the kangaroo.”