Suzanne Calling

It's interesting how songs you learned when you were very little stay in your head and pop out of the depths, dust the cobwebs off and bounce around all day long. Today's musical selection might run around yours, too. See, someone mentioned elephants. Someone else mentioned monkeys, and I was off to the Animal Fair. Of course, I googled it, but the version I found must be a British one (judging from the accents of the singers) and the words were slightly different. The one I learned: I went to the animal fair the birds and beasts were there the big baboon, by the light of the moon, was stroking his auburn hair the monkey he got drunk and sat on the elephant's trunk the elephant sneezed, and fell to his knees and that was the end of the monk, the monk, the monk. But the British version ? I went to the Animal Fair The birds and beasts were there The big baboon, by the light of the moon, was combing his auburn hair You ought to have seen the monk He s...