The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #22385 Message #242707
Posted By: Mark Cohen
15-Jun-00 - 02:09 AM
Thread Name: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
Subject: RE: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
Be yourself You can't be anybody else Be yourself Or else you'll always be a nobody So be yourself, or else
A hippopotamus Would look very curious Flying like a butterfly A fierce and hungry lion Would look very silly tryin' To bake an apple pie I think you'd get a laugh If you saw a tall giraffe Swinging by his tail from a tree I think an octopus Would look quite ridiculous Knitting sweaters at the bottom of the sea, so... [repeat chorus]
I don't know who wrote it, but it's on Danny Kaye's recording of Tubby the Tuba at the Circus.