Please correct me if I am mistaken,
but my searches at the Mudcat for this song
have met with almost complete failure.

Almost, I say, because of Mudcat member Joe F,
who recalls two stanzas of the lyrics
and has posted them to two threads,
but really, one must have the whole thing.

Especially now that I'm posting this
from a mental-health clinic for long-term residential treatment
(outing myself here, but I have a BS thread going about it).


Michael Flanders, when he wrote the chorus,
was required by somebody -- the BBC, I believe --
to change two words, as the words threatened to give offense.


The chorus originally went:

I'm an introverted, elepho-centric, hypochondriac
And I'll stick in the Elephants' Loony Bin
'Til I get me memory back.

Hue and cry, all-right-all-right-I'll-change-that,
and now the official lyric reads:

I'm an introverted, elepho-centric, hypochondriac
And I'll stick in the Elephants' Nursing Home
'Til I get me memory back.


Am I correct in believing that F & S expressly wrote this song for
singer Ian Wallace?