Syd Barrett - Effervescing Elephant

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

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• Syd
• Barrett
• Effervescing
• Elephant

[LucasRocks749]

THIS IS SO FUCKING GENIUS

[Torkgasmicgirl8]

I love Syd. That's all....

[zonta501]

syd was a legend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[floydlover65]

I wish this song was longer, syd is a genious.

[EugeneGatesDawn]

@will4pope It is on Syd Barrett's solo album "Barrett."

[will4pope]

Did this make it onto an album? If so which!?

[IndianaSurfGuitar]

@LucasRocks749 This one if my favorite Syd Barrett tune 'cause of the irony at the end!

[OVG12]

i feel like mud + XD

[Napoleon4778]

I'm going to take LSD and I know it. Unfortunately I was born in 1994. So I can never see the '60s alive again.

[69treta]

@UglyPratFace7 Yeah, you do act like your age! We always think we don't, but we actually do. That's part of our nature :)

By the way, it's awesome to see someone else listening to Barret's songs

[viksox13]

pure brilliance.

[UglyPratFace7]

@69treta . . . I just miss being a LITTLE child again, because everyone is expecting me to be so grown up, they say "act your age" ... but I don't :D