The Innocent Dodo

The Innocent Dodo

The Innocent Dodo appears on the Sid Kipper album Like A Rhinestone Ploughboy

I prithee good Ladies and Lordies attend;

Give ear to my sorrowful ode-oh.

By means of this ballad I now do intend

To sing you in praise of the dodo.

In far off Mauritia the dodo do dwell,

Halfway to the far Antipode-oh;

And if we would serve her, then this I must tell;

It should not be parboiled, a la mode-oh.

For if the poor creature is but to keep going,

Our slogan must be 'Stop The Bloody Dodoing'.

The dodo in the morning she falls from her nest -

If she could she would surely have flowed-oh;

She returns in the evening to take her sweet rest,

Though how she ascends I am blowed-oh.

And all in her season she'll go with her mates,

By them she will soon be bestrode-oh;

And as she may dally with seven or eight,

Then 'tis clear that she risks overload-oh.

And as she must put up with all of this stuff,

I ask dost thou not think she's suffered enough?

How many roads must a dodo walk down

Before you can call her a dodo?

How many seas must a white dodo sail

Before she can sleep in the road-oh?

Ripe fruit and berries and nuts that are nigh,

In the bird's stomach are stowed-oh;

Be grateful, good people, the dodo don't fly,

For t'would danger you when she unload-oh.

And if you should question on what she had dined,

The answer my friend would be blowing in the winde.

And so on my tunic this message I spell;

'God Save the King, and the Dodo as Well'.