• This is a song I learned in fist school.
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    THE GNU SONG
    (Michael Flanders / Donald Swann)
    Flanders & Swann - 1960


    A year ago, last Thursday
    I was strolling in the zoo
    when I met a man who though he knew the lot.
    He was laying down the law about the habits of baboons
    And how many spines a porcupine has got.
    So I asked him:
    "What's that creature there?"
    He answered, "Oh, it's a h'Elk"
    I might of gone on thinking that was true
    If the animal in question hadn't put that chap to shame
    And remarked, "I h'aint a h'Elk, I'm a Gnu"

    "I'm a Gnu
    I'm a Gnu
    The g-nicest work of g-nature in the zoo
    I'm a Gnu
    How do you do
    You really ought to k-now w-ho's w-ho's
    I'm a Gnu
    Spelt G-N-U
    I'm g-not a Camel or a Kangaroo
    So let me introduce
    I'm g-neither man or moose
    Oh g-no g-no g-no I'm a Gnu"

    I had taken furnished lodgings down at Rustington-on-Sea
    Whence I travelled on to Ashton-under-Lyne it was actually
    And the second night I stayed there I was woken from a dream
    That I'll tell you all about some other time
    Among the hunting trophies on the wall above my bed
    Stuffed and mounted, was a face I thought I knew;
    A Bison? No, it's not a Bison.
    An Okapi? Unlikely, Really. A Hartebeest?
    When I though I heard a voice...

    "I'm a Gnu
    I'm a Gnu
    A g-nother gnu
    I wish I could g-nash my teeth at you
    I'm a Gnu
    How do you do
    You really ought to k-now w-ho's w-ho's
    I'm a Gnu
    Spelt G-N-U
    Call me Bison or Okapi and I'll sue
    G-nor am I the least like that dreadful Hartebeest,
    Oh, g-no, g-no, g-no,
    G-no g-no g-no, I'm a Gnu
    G-no g-no g-no, I'm a Gnu"