Burl Ives - The Whale Lyrics

The Whale(spoken) Here's a song about a whalewith a most amazing appetite.(sung)In San Francisco town there lived a whaleWho 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 peachBut you can't leave food within her reachNor nurse-maids, nor Airedales,Nor chocolate ice cream sodas.She eats a lot but when she smilesYou 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.