Child Like Lyrics - Oh Yeah!

Got into a discussion about Syd Barrett tunes last week, and went to find the spelling for Effervescing Elephant. In doing so I found the lyrics. When I read them I realised just what great lyrics they are - they are typical Syd. You could read them to your kid and he wouldn't be any wiser that they were written by someone who lost the plot in the 60s, partially due to the amount of drugs he was doing - he'd just think its from some kids song book. And the wife would for that matter! So here they are. As with any song, they are better when you know the tune:

An Effervescing Elephant
with tiny eyes and great big trunk
once whispered to the tiny ear
the ear of one inferior
that by next June he'd die, oh yeah!
because the tiger would roam.
The little one said: "Oh my goodness I must stay at home!
and every time I hear a growl
I'll know the tiger's on the prowl
and I'll be really safe, you know
the elephant he told me so."
Everyone was nervy, oh yeah!
and the message was spread
to zebra, mongoose, and the dirty hippopotamus
who wallowed in the mud and chewed
his spicy hippo-plankton food
and tended to ignore the word
preferring to survey a herd
of stupid water bison, oh yeah!
And all the jungle took fright,
and ran around for all the day and the night
but all in vain, because, you see,
the tiger came and said: "Who me?!
You know, I wouldn't hurt not one of you.
I'd much prefer something to chew
and you're all to scant." oh yeah!
He ate the Elephant