I too am looking for this song. When I was a child in the 1960's we had a children's album that I believe was called something to the effect of the Total pipers zoo? Remember I was 4 or 5. It had the laughing Giraffe song, along with some others that I remember. One of the had the lyrics to the effect of "Mother may I go out to play?" "Yes my darling daughter, hang your clothes on the ____ limb and don't go near the water.\