Let's stick with the animal kingdom and flashback some with The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Always loved that song!
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But ... but ... the melody's stolen from It's a nick-nack, Patti Mac, give the frog a loan
Quite possibly the most favorite "animal song" of all time.
Puff the Magic Dragon
I remember it well.
They made some bloody god music.
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When they suck my blood - which they do every couple of weeks - I remind them that I'm half Welsh - so they're dealing with dragon's blood. I think some of the younger phlebotomists think that I am a little strange. They are not wrong.
Well, it wasn't the Dragon. . .
A story that old doesn't feature hygiene very often.
Lets face it, you're unlikely to get:
Enter old peasant woman, taking a clean towel from the cabinet,
"Ah clean hands. just the job."
<she dries her hands and puts the towel in the Laundry basket>
As Miss Ella Fitzgerald proves with this performance even a child's song can be taken to all new levels by a professional.
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A story that old doesn't feature hygiene very often.
Lets face it, you're unlikely to get:
Enter old peasant woman, taking a clean towel from the cabinet,
"Ah clean hands. just the job."
<she dries her hands and puts the towel in the Laundry basket>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Z5LpHuXVE
Back in the day when this song was getting a bit of airplay, a kid down the road used to go around singing:
They're changing the guard at Buckingham Palace
Christopher Robin went down on Alice
Oh well, an easy enough mistake to make
