Nellie, the elephant (1982)
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1. To Bombay a travelling circus came,
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they
brought an intelligent elephant, and Nellie was her name.
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One dark night, she slipped
her iron chain,
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and
off she ran to Hindustan and was never seen again. Ooooooh !
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Nellie, the elephant, packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus,
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off she rode with a trumpety-trump, trump, trump, trump.
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Now, Nellie, the elephant packed her trunk and trundled off to the
jungle,
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off she rode with a trumpety-trump, trump, trump, trump.
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2. Night by night, she danced to the circus band,
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when
Nellie was leading the big parade and looked so proud and grand.
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No more tricks for Nellie to
perform,
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they
taught her how to take a bow and she took the crowd by storm.
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Ooooh ! + CHORUS
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to capo 3rd here) + CHORUS
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+ The head of the herd
was calling, far, far away,
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they
met one night in the silver light on the road to Mandalay. - - - -
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(orig. = capo 2nd) (The Toy
Dolls)