The Whale

The Whale - Burl Ives (伯爾·艾夫斯)

Here's a song about a whale

With a most amazing appetite

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