Syd Barret - Effervescing Elephant lyrics

An effervescing elephant With tiny eyes, and great big trunk Once whispered to the tiny ears The ears of one inferior That by next june he'd die, oh yeah! Because the tiger would roam And the little one said oh my goodness i must stay at home And everytime i hear a growl I'll know the tiger's on the prowl And i'll be really safe you know The elephant he told me so And everyone was nervvy, oh yeah! And the message was spread To zebra, mongoose, and the dirty hippopotamus Who wollowed in the mud and chewed His spicy hippoplancton food And tended to ignore the word Prefering to survey a herd Of stupid water bison, oh yeah! And the jungle took fright And ran around for all the day and the night But all in vain because you see The tiger came and said to me, "you know i wouldn't hurt not one of you I much prefer something to chew You're all too scant, oh yeah!" He ate the elephant...