baby mumbles

  

Baby Mumbles, the dancing hippopotomus

Liked to swim most days in the sun

He'd copy Mom by blowing bubbles too

But his favorite game was to dance like the monkeys do

('cause he could dance too)

 

Baby Mumbles would often pretend

To dance and swing like his monkey friends

Some days he got carried away

And he would lead the monkeys in a dancing parade

 

'Cause he could walk like

he could swing like

he could dance like the monkeys too

 

he could mumble

he could tumble

Mumble tumbled like the monkeys do

 

Baby Mumbles...

like to dance and swing more than anything

But poor Mumbles...

his Mom found out, she wouldn't let him go out

So baby Mumbles...

played hippo games until he grew up

 

Then one day, Mumbles stumbled to the jungle

to join his monkey friends

to dance and swing and do his monkey thing        

 

 

Words and Music written by Richard Paul Lafontaine

Copyright 1990 unpublished

January 19,1990