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Thread #71873 Message #1232352
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
23-Jul-04 - 02:27 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Whale Song (Carmichael)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE WHALE SONG (Dearmer/Carmichael)
THE WHALE SONG
Geoffrey Dearmer; music Hoagy Carmichael
Wouldn't you like to be a whale and sail serenely by,-
An eighty-foot whale from your tip to your tail
and a tiny briny eye?-
Wouldn't you like to wallow,
Where nobody says, "Come out!"?-
Wouldn't you love to swallow-
And blow all the brine about?-
Wouldn't you like to be so clean
And never have to wash, I mean,
Wouldn't you love to spout?
Oh yes, just think!
A feather of spray, Sailing away,
Rising and sinking and sinking and rising,
And blowing the brine about?
McConathy et al. New Music Horizons, Fifth Book. Silver Burdett Co., 1946, 1953.