Chorus: A5 G5 King and Queens of the Pelicans we; Gb5 F5 No other Birds so grand we see! E5 Eb5 None but we have feet like fins! E5 Ab5 With lovely leathery throats and chins! A5 B5 Ploffskin, Puffskin, Pelican jee! C5 D5 We think no birds so happy as we! A5 E5 Plumpskin, Ploshkin, Pelican jill! A5 We think so then, and we thought so still! Instrumental: Am E7 Am Dm Am E Am Verse: Am E7 We live on the Nile. The Nile we love Am A By night we sleep on the cliffs above; Dm By day we fish, and at eve we stand E On long bare islands of yellow sand Am And when the sun sinks slowly down -nc- And the great rock walls grow dark and brown Am Where the purple river rolls fast and dim Am And the Ivory Ibis starlike skim Bridge: Am B Wing to wing we dance around E7 Am Stamping our feet with a flumpy sound B Opening our mouths as Pelicans ought E Am And this is the song that we nightly snore: Chorus: A5 G5 King and Queens of the Pelicans we; Gb5 F5 No other Birds so grand we see! E5 Eb5 None but we have feet like fins! E5 Ab5 With lovely leathery throats and chins! A5 B5 Ploffskin, Puffskin, Pelican jee! C5 D5 We think no birds so happy as we! A5 E5 Plumpskin, Ploshkin, Pelican jill! A5 We think so then, and we thought so still! Instrumental: Am E7 Am Dm Am E Am
