Michael‘s Aunt Debbie sent us a box of gifts, including a couple of children’s music CDs for Jade. (Aside: people have been so sweet about remembering Jade when they bring gifts for Halia. Seriously, it’s like Christmas around here.)
Jade loved the new CDs and I got a kick out of them, too, since there are some songs I haven’t heard since I was a kid. One of them is “The Animal Fair”. Here are the lyrics, as they are sung on Jade’s CD:
I went to the animal fair,
The birds and the beasts were there,
The big baboon by the light of the moon
Was combing his auburn hair.
The monkey bumped the skunk
And sat on the elephant’s trunk;
The elephant sneezed and fell to his knees,
And almost slipped on his trunk, his trunk!
Now, it’s a little silly to try to rhyme “trunk” with “trunk”, but the real problem I have with this version is that it’s nowhere near as funny as the version I remember as a kid.
I went to the animal fair,
The birds and the beasts were there,
The big baboon by the light of the moon
Was combing his auburn hair.
The monkey, he was drunk,
And sat on the elephant’s trunk;
The elephant sneezed and fell to his knees,
And that was the end of the monk, the monk!
I guess these days it’s not politically correct to have drunk monkeys in children’s songs, hunh?
