JUNGLE HAIR

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I tried to comb my hair today

And what to my surprise

An alligator caught my comb

On his wet and scaly thighs.

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I told the gator to get out

You belong not in my locks.

But he replied, "The monkey said

I could stay if I wore socks."

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"Socks," I yelled. "There's no socks on your toes.

Whatever can you mean?"

"Not my toes," he snapped with his pearly whites.

"On my ears," said this creature bright green.

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There's no green, no brown, no pearly white

In the hair on my head, just my curls.

To prove it, I shook it, my Jungle Hair

And out fell a frog named Earl.

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Earl the frog hopped round and round

Then right back into my hair.

I reached and grabbed to get him out

Then shouted, "Hey, get out of there."

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To my surprise Earl croaked right back

In a throaty croak no less.

"When I find my dinner I'll leave hip hop

No fight, no fuss, no mess."

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Swack! With a flip and a soggy flop

A slobbery tongue wet my ear.

With a hip and a hop Earl sailed right by

And croaked, "I'm outa here."

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"'Bout time," said a voice with a furry tail.

A monkey? How did you come to be

With the rest of these creatures on top of my head?

"Ask the elephant," he said, "then you'll see."

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How we came to be on top of your head

To live here for just a bit.

It's getting a little bit crowded

I can't find a good place to sit.

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"An elephant, rhino, yak and a lemur,"

I said to the slithery snake.

"Do I look like a cab or a boarding house?

How much more do you think I can take?"

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When you went to the zoo with your school yesterday

"Let's escape," said the snake to his friends.

But we're tired now and want to go home.

Call a cab and we'll call this the end.

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