KING BORRIA BUNGALEE BOO
Was a maneating African swell;
His sigh was a hullaballoo,His whisper a horrible yell A horrible,horrible yell!
Four subjects,and all of them male,To BORRIA doubled the knee,They were once on a far larger scale,But he'd eaten the balance,you see ("Scale"and "balance"is punning,you see).
There was haughty PISHTUSHPOOHBAH,There was lumbering DOODLEDUMDEY,Despairing ALACKADEYAH,And good little TOOTLETUMTEH Exemplary TOOTLETUMTEH.
One day there was grief in the crew,For they hadn't a morsel of meat,And BORRIA BUNGALEE BOOWas dying for something to eat
"Come,provide me with something to eat!
"ALACKADEY,famished I feel;
Oh,good little TOOTLETUMTEH,Where on earth shall I look for a meal?
For I haven't no dinner today!
Not a morsel of dinner today!
"Dear TOOTLETUM,what shall we do?
Come,get us a meal,or,in truth,If you don't,we shall have to eat you,Oh,adorable friend of our youth!
Thou beloved little friend of our youth!"
And he answered,"Oh,BUNGALEE BOO,For a moment I hope you will wait,TIPPYWIPPITY TOLTHEROLLOO
Is the Queen of a neighbouring state
A remarkably neighbouring state.
"TIPPYWIPPITY TOLTHEROLLOO,She would pickle deliciously cold And her four pretty Amazons,too,Are enticing,and not very old Twentyseven is not very old.
"There is neat little TITTYFOLLEH,There is rollicking TRALTHERALLAH,There is jocular WAGGETYWEH,There is musical DOHREHMIFAH There's the nightingale DOHREHMIFAH!"
So the forces of BUNGALEE BOO
Marched forth in a terrible row,And the ladies who fought for QUEEN LOOPrepared to encounter the foe
This dreadful,insatiate foe!
But they sharpened no weapons at all,And they poisoned no arrows not they!
They made ready to conquer or fall In a totally different way An entirely different way.