The Zoo
It seems there's been a little problem with our banker
It seems our rainy day account is running low
Where once we had enough spare cash to fill a tanker
Now we're suffering a tragic lack of dough
The mayor says we've got to sell the elephants
We'll keep the gnus because they just eat grass
And no one wants to lose the troop of baboons
We love the monkey with the rosie crimson ass
We will be forced to feed the bunnies to the eagles
And then, the eagles will become a lion's snack
Our in-house counsel assures us it's all quite legal
We're merely trying to keep our fiscal train on track
The mayor says we've got to sell the elephants
He says the hippopotamuses too
We will have no rhino's with their nose horn
We will have no tapirs in our zoo
It's a shame to lose our pythons and our boas
We will admit that we have grown quite attached
We have sold them to the pet shop Ark of Noah's
And we're saving eighty bucks a month on rats
The mayor says we've got to sell the elephants
We can't afford to buy them so much food
Perhaps we'll give them to a passing circus
Or a troop of gypsies wandering through the' hood
Perhaps the chimpanzees can get some side work
What entitles them to have free room and board?
We'll put them on a farm with scythe and pitchfork
Or have them work in psychiatric wards
The mayor says we've got to sell the elephants
They will be gone before St Patrick's Day
He's got a plan so we will never miss them
He's going to paint some old school buses gray
It seems our rainy day account is running low
Where once we had enough spare cash to fill a tanker
Now we're suffering a tragic lack of dough
The mayor says we've got to sell the elephants
We'll keep the gnus because they just eat grass
And no one wants to lose the troop of baboons
We love the monkey with the rosie crimson ass
We will be forced to feed the bunnies to the eagles
And then, the eagles will become a lion's snack
Our in-house counsel assures us it's all quite legal
We're merely trying to keep our fiscal train on track
The mayor says we've got to sell the elephants
He says the hippopotamuses too
We will have no rhino's with their nose horn
We will have no tapirs in our zoo
It's a shame to lose our pythons and our boas
We will admit that we have grown quite attached
We have sold them to the pet shop Ark of Noah's
And we're saving eighty bucks a month on rats
The mayor says we've got to sell the elephants
We can't afford to buy them so much food
Perhaps we'll give them to a passing circus
Or a troop of gypsies wandering through the' hood
Perhaps the chimpanzees can get some side work
What entitles them to have free room and board?
We'll put them on a farm with scythe and pitchfork
Or have them work in psychiatric wards
The mayor says we've got to sell the elephants
They will be gone before St Patrick's Day
He's got a plan so we will never miss them
He's going to paint some old school buses gray