The Whale - Mopy Dick 1952 Flanders and Swann

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 23 Oct 2003

The bottlenosed whale
is a furlong long
and likewise wise
but headstrong strong
and he sings this very lugubrious song
as he sails thro'
the great Antarctic Ocean blue.
Oh why do I swim thro' seas Antarctical?
Ooo...
Freezing cold in ev'ry particle
Ooo...
Some porpoises invited me
to come and join their school;
They brought me here then swam away,
and shouted April Fool.

If ever I catch that school of porpoises
Ooo...
They won't get no Habeas Corpuses
Ooo...
I'm lost and alone
in a frozen zone
and I'm almost frozen too;
A shivering, quivering, bottlenosed whale,
the bottlenosed whale...
with the flu........ ch,
ooch ooch ooah Tschoo

Oh I used to play like a gay Leviathan
ugh huh huh huh huh huh huh
Squirting up jets like a soda siaphon
Whoosh!
Now ev'ry time I try to
lift my hanky to my nose
A great harpoon goes whistling by,
to a shout of "There she blows!"'....

I like my oceans equatorial
Ooo...
Where the water's warm,
and the breeze less Boreal,
Ooo...
It's Fahrenheit minus twentynine,
and I don't know what to do.

A rubbery, blubbery, bottlenosed whale,
The bottlenosed whale...
with the 'flu....... ch
ooch ooch ah Tschooo!

The bottlenosed whale is a furlong long
and likewise wise but headstrong strong
and he sings that very lugubrious song
as he sails thro' the ocean blue.

Tho' red your nose,
tho' your toes are froze,
tho' cold it seems to you
Remember the tale of the bottlenosed whale
Who has not even got
his own hot water bot,
The bottlenosed whale...
...with the 'flu...

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
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The Whale(Mopy Dick) 1952 Flanders and Swann
Lyrics by Michael Flanders
Music by Donald Swann
copyright 1952 by Chappell and Co.Ltd.
sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 23 October 2003 at 20.53
in association with Doug Grierson
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