Girl Talk VI: If I Ran the Zoo

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My new zoo, Emma Mae's Zoo,
will make people talk

My new zoo, Emma Mae's Zoo,
will make people gawk.
At the strangest,
odd creatures that ever did walk.
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They'll be so surprised
they'll all swallow their gum
They'll ask, when they see,
when my strange animals come,
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"Where do you suppose
she gets things like that from?
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"...Her animals all have such

very odd faces-
I'll bet she must hunt them
from rather odd places!"
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I'll get for my zoo a new sort of hen
Who roosts in another hen's topknot,
& then
Another one roosts in the topknot of his,
And another in his,
and another in HIS
And so forth and upward and onward,
gee whiz!
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And that's what I'll do,

Said young Emma Mae Maslar,
If you want to catch beasts
you don't see every day,
You have to go places
quite out-of-the-way.
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You have to go places no others can get to
You have to get cold
and you have to get wet, too.
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I'll load up five boats with a family of Joats
Whose feet are like cows',
but wear squirrel-skin coats,
And sit down like dogs,
but have voices like goats -
Excepting they can't sing the very high notes.
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I'll hunt in the mountains
of Zomba-ma-Tant
With helpers who all
wear their eyes at a slant.



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And capture a fine fluffy bird
Called the Bustard
Who only eats custard
with sauce made of mustard.
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Up past the North Pole
where the frozen winds squeal,
I'll go and I'll hunt
with my Skeegle-mobile
And bring back a family
of What-do-you-know!

And that's how my New Zoo,
Emma Mae's Zoo
will grow!
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"It's a pretty good zoo,"
Said young Eva-boo
"and my girlfriend who runs it
seems proud of it, too."
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But if Eva ran the zoo,
the New Zoo,
Eva Boo's Zoo,
She'd see to making a change or two.
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"So I'd open each cage,
I'd unlock every pen,
Let the animals go
& start over again."
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This Zoo Keeper, new Keeper
is simply astounding!
She travels so far that you
think she would drop....
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When do you suppose
this young lady will stop?
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Young Emma Mae's made her mark
She's built a zoo better
than Noah's whole ark!
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If I ran the zoo,
the New Zoo,
Emma Mae's Zoo
I'd bring back the sea lions
& replace the kangaroo.




(Riverbanks Zoo has recently relocated our sea lions and rebuilt their habitat for wallabys.)


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Thanks to Riverbanks Zoo for yet again another wonderful time.