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8/16/2024 for Onomatopoeia Poetry Contest sponsored by Emile Pinet
The Animal Good Time Band
When you live on a farm and hear cockadoodle-doo
What do those words mean to you?
They mean pretty soon you'll hear moo,
and you'll have lots of work to do.
After a while, the horse will neigh,
and, before you know it, you are bailing hay.
I wished that rooster hadn't made a peep,
so I turned over and went back to sleep.
What if the animals were a musical team?
I thought to myself and started to dream:
Hey everybody, clap your hands
and listen to the Animal Good Time Band!
It's got animals of every kind.
Their grunts and snuffles are in 4/4 time.
Animals from Africa and Australia -
Reptiles, birds, and mammalia.
Rat-a-tat tat, let's have a drum roll
Man, the elephants and zebras are outta control.
Thump, thump, thump goes the bass guitar.
McCartney? Hah!, the walrus is better by far.
Time to kick back, get in the groove and relax,
and listen to the ostrich toot and wail on sax.
Their new lead guitarist is all the rage.
Yep, the orangutan out-twangs Jimmy Page.
That mournful cry of the violin's trill -
Ain't nobody bows it like a gorilla will.
Hear the monkey smash that thang.
Bwaaangg - the cymbals crash and bang.
That ain't no monkey, that's my mother
Huffing, "get up and work, you and your brother".
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