I saw a little elephant standing in my garden,
I said 'You don't belong in here', he said 'I beg your pardon?',
I said 'This place is England, what are you doing here?',
He said 'Ah, then I must be lost' and then 'Oh dear, oh dear'.
'I should be back in Africa, on Saranghetti's Plain',
'Pray, where is the nearest station where I can catch a train?'.
He caught the bus to Finchley and then to Mincing lane,
And over the Embankment, where he got lost, again.
The police they put him in a cell, but it was far too small,
So they tied him to a lampost and he slept against the wall.
But as the policemen lay sleeping by the twinkling light of dawn,
The lampost and the wall were there, but the elephant was gone!
So if you see an elephant, in a Jumbo Jet,
You can be sure that Africa's the place he's trying to get!
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Ah Africa!
Mariana
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I'm not too keen on the last two lines, it's as if he just wanted it for the line's like. It is quite amusing though, it's cute.
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Thanks for featuring this poem: a great surprise. He was very special. I recall 'Strawberry Moose' (moose with strawberries all over them) and moose doing impressions of cows (first impression, 1969). Jeez, he was good. God bless you Spike (and Peter Cook).
Hey ... maybe Spike and Peter are the new Oprah and Dr Phil?
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My mum, use to read this to me as a child and I would laugh and laugh. I loved it very much. and still do
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Delightful!!
Spike Milligan a wondrously talented man.
~Von~
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