The agitated aardvarks are all aboard the ark, the buzz of a busy bumble bee, the bulldog’s brutal bark, a Cheshire cat, a cockatoo, all crammed into the craft, a drone, a drill, a diplodocus dressed distinctly daft, every eager elephant, each energetic eel, from farms afar come flocks and fowl with firm or furry feel. Go go, get God, we’ve got to go, the globe is getting grey. Hoist the heifer, heave the hound, the horse must have its hay. The ibex inches inwards with the iguanodon. The jackdaw juggles jellyfish with Jesus, James and John. The kestrels, kiwis, krill, koalas, kangaroos and kites all long to leave this leaky lifeboat lit by lurid lights. The mites and maggots masticate, the mammals moo and miaow, while Noah nods his narrow nose; he knows the night is now. He observes the open ocean, orders ostriches to oar, then picks up parrots, pigs and prawns, and pats the panther’s paw. He quickly quenches quarrels, quietens quadruped and quail. The rain’ll rattle rabbits and make reindeer rant and rail. The storm has started, squirrels struggle swift to set the sails. Terror takes its toll as tigers trill and tug their tails. Umpteen upset unicorns unduly ululate. A vixen vomits volumes on a vehement vertebrate. The west wind wends its wicked way towards the whelks and whales. Our exotic exiles execrate, the x-ray fish exhales. The youngest yellow yaks and yetis yell and yelp to you, “Show zeal, zoom in and zap us from this zany, zigzag zoo!”
credits
from Kaboomba!,
released July 30, 2009
Words by J. Hinton, music by J. Hinton / L. Green
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