Songtexte The Whale (Mopy Dick) - Flanders , Swann

The bottlenosed whale is a furlong long
And likewise wise, but headstrong strong
And he sings this very lugubrious song
As he sails through the great Antarctic Ocean blue
Oh, why do I swim through seas Antarctical? Ooo
Freezing cold in every particle, ooo
Some porpoises invited me to come and join their school
They brought me here, then swam away and shouted, "April Fool!"
If ever I catch that school of porpoises, ooo
They won't get no habeas corpuses, ooo
I'm lost and alone in a frozen zone
And I'm almost frozen too
A shivering, quivering bottlenosed whale
The bottlenosed whale with the flu
Achoo!
Oh, I used to play like a gay leviathan, ooo
Squirting up jets like a soda siphon, ooo
Now every time I try to lift my hanky to my nose
A great harpoon goes whistling by
To a shout of, "There she blows!"
I like my oceans equatorial, ooo
Where the water's warm and the breeze less boreal, ooo
It's Fahrenheit minus twenty-nine
And I don't know what to do
A rubbery, blubbery bottlenosed whale
The bottlenosed whale with the flu
Achoo!
The bottlenosed whale is a furlong long
And likewise wise, but headstrong strong
And he sings that very lugubrious song
As he sails through the ocean blue
Though red your nose, though your toes are froze
Though cold it seems to you
Remember the tale of the bottlenosed whale
Who has not even got his own hot water bott'
The bottlenosed whale with the flu
Achoo!