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WALKING IN THE ZOO, by                    
First Line: "the stilton, sir, the cheese, the o.K. Thing to do"
Last Line: "the horror and the agony, that sunday in the zoo"
Subject(s): Animals;sabbath;walking;zoos; Sunday


The Stilton, sir, the cheese, the O.K. thing to do,
On Sunday afternoon, is to toddle to the Zoo;
Week days may do for cads, but not for me and you,
So dress'd, right down the road we show them who is who.

Chorus

Walking in the Zoo, walking in the Zoo,
The O.K. thing on Sunday is walking in the Zoo.

So when there came to town my pretty cousin Loo,
I took her off to spend a Sunday at the Zoo;
I showed her the aquarium, the Tiger, the Zebu,
The Elephant, the Eland, that cuss -- the Kangaroo.

Oh! walking in the Zoo, walking in the Zoo,
The monkeys put us to the blush on Sunday at the Zoo.

So into the monkey house, going in to woo,
Piling up the agony, swearing to be true,
Agony, indeed, for the cheerful cockatoo
Caught my ear a nip and bit it through and through.

Oh! that cheerful cockatoo, that awful cockatoo,
The horror and the agony, that Sunday in the Zoo.





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