Pelicans We

King and Queen of the Pelicans we No other Birds so grand we see None but we have feet like fins With lovely leathery throats and chins Ploffskin, Pluffskin, Pelican jee We think no birds so happy as we Plumpskin, Ploshkin, Pelican jill We think so then, and we thought so still We live on the Nile, The Nile we love By night we sleep on the cliffs above By day we fish, and at eve we stand On long bare islands of yellow sand And when the sun sinks slowly down And the great rock walls grow dark and brown Where the purple river rolls fast and dim And the ivory Ibis starlike skim Wing to wing we dance around Stamping our feet with a flumpy sound Opening our mouths as Pelicans ought And this is the song we nightly snort King and Queen of the Pelicans we No other Birds so grand we see None but we have feet like fins With lovely leathery throats and chins Ploffskin, Pluffskin, Pelican jee We think no birds so happy as we Plumpskin, Ploshkin, Pelican jill We think so then, and we thought so still