Burl Ives - The Whale lyrics

Burl Ives - The Whale

(spoken) Here's a song about a whale

with a most amazing appetite.

(sung)

In San Francisco town there lived a whale

Who ate pork chops by the pale,

By the pill-box, by the suitcase,

By the bathtub, by the schooner.

Her name was Sara and she's a peach

But you can't leave food within her reach

Nor nurse-maids, nor Airedales,

Nor chocolate ice cream sodas.

She eats a lot but when she smiles

You can see her teeth for miles and miles,

And her adenoids, and her spare ribs,

And things too fierce to mention.

So what can you do in a case like that?

what can you do except sit on your hat,

Or your toothbrush, or your grandmother,

Or anything else that's helpless.