I can sit on sands by the sea

And see the vikings a-fascinating me, me by the moonlight

Everything a-changing except the sun and tide

Their green lands, rivers and trees and sands

Where birds sing animal paradise a-crackling

They make me feel glad to be an earthling

But the ostrich always gets his man

He jumps out from a bush

He can run faster than a zebra can

But it always takes a push in the morning

Burying the head he was born in

No one's more important than the earthworm

No one's more important than the earthworm

Minors rather than majors every single time

Just as long as I can make the end rhyme

It's too late, I can't change my birth sign

So one day when yellows and greens and blues are all over

Lay me 'neath the last square inch of clover

No one's more important than the earthworm

But the ostrich always gets his man

He jumps out from a bush

Yeah he can run faster than a zebra can

But it always takes a push in the morning

Burying the head he was born in

No one's more important than the earthworm

No one's more important than the earthworm

And the ostrich always got his man

He jumped out from a bush

He was running faster than a zebra can

But it only took a push in the morning

Burying the head he was born in

No one's more important than the earthworm

No one's more important than the earthworm