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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  Music

[in6darkness6forever6]

You don't know syd barrett ????? o_O

[senrioflove]

My mam used to sing this to me when I was a baby.

[news4usunshine]

Dylan is a songwriting genius, and Barrett was as well.  Joplin was basically a talented lounge singer. Her musical talents were nowhere near that of the other two.

[news4usunshine]

I would say they can't be mentioned in the same sentence unless it's "Syd Barrett had talent, character and class, while Justin Bieber has none of the three."

[Federico Favaro]

Justin Bieber and Syd Barrett can't be read in the same sentence unless it is "Syd Barrett, go and learn Justin Bieber what music is".

[in6darkness6forever6]

why not, youtube can take you farrrrr with the suggested videos thing on the side

[WhoaaaDan]

Course he does. You don't just stumble upon this.

[Lukula29]

It's not acid that makes a genius songwriter. It's talent.

[CatBurger18]

Obviously, he might be a fan of shitty music.