Sigh... The folk process at work. At GWU in the 60's we sang it like this:

The sexual life of the camel
Is stranger by far than one thinks.
In a moment of animal passion
He tried to deflower the Sphinx.

Now the Sphinx's posterior regions
Are hid by the sands of the Nile,
Which accounts for the hump on the camel,
And the Sphinx's mysterious smile.

Tune was same as "The Dying Aviator." I'm sure it has an older and more legitimate name but never learned what it is.

It occurs to me I should post the Dying Aviator. Will start a new thread.