?? The Daffodil Song (Based on the Axolotl Song)
(Verse 1)
There's a Daffodil on the hillside, green.
Is a daffodil supposed to be, seen?
If you ask the Creator,
If the spring will come later,
A sparrow flits by and then the flower's gone.
(Verse 2)
There's a Daffodil in a window box, bright.
Is a daffodil supposed to be, there at night?
If you ask the Almighty,
If the flower's doing rightly,
A bumblebee buzzes in and then the flower's gone.
(Verse 3)
There's a Daffodil at the front, gate.
Is that a sign of God's love or just fate?
If you ask the Spirit,
If they'll always be near it,
A warm breeze blows through and then the flower's gone.
(Chorus)
Yellow, mellow, Daffodil!
Hallowed, hallowed, God's love still!
We'll see them, tomorrow! (Yay, yeah, yeah!)
I brought home an axolotl
In a thin-necked ketchup bottle
Then I could never get the damned thing out.
I broke up with the mute Egyptian
Found his code was a crude encryption
Read the story of the life of a silent lout.
Waddlin' toddlin' down the track
End of the line and halfway back
Marry or bury me, I don't care
Fiddlin' a middlin' Irish aire.
Caribou smoked on a barbecue grill
Fed everyone from the curlicue mill
Then got stuck going home on the roundabout.
I have a friend called Bob Beaubobble
who trains unusual pets to juggle
assorted items frequently fumbled
by freakish fish or octibumbles
This hobby made him mucha dinero
which he put in the bank ‘with interest’ to grow
but while he was filling in all of the forms
One creature escaped from under his arms
Unseen in the dark, in the bank late at night
It bypassed security through the intranet site
And juggled and gambled to its hearts content
playing with our pennies until they were spent
Red-faced officials met the press in a panic
George Bush sent more troops to Afghan and Iraq
World leaders drew circles around toxic debt
then pointed their fingers to the country that started it...
The slimy old salamander sucks his cigar
as he drives to his office in a luxury car.
CEO though all see he's a feckless axolotl
without any shame, just a shed load of bottle.
He's safe in the knowledge, while his bank has been drained
A huge bonus is scheduled to keep him retained
and cash will be pumped from the taxpayers vains
soon he’ll start things all over and gamble again.
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