Name: Zoo Blues
Duration: P00H03M27S
Description: I had a friend who worked at the SF Zoo. This was for him.

Zoo Blues

by David Shepherd Grossman

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I had a friend who worked at the SF Zoo. This was for him.

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Zoo Blues
Words and Music by
David Shepherd Grossman
Ó2000

We got lions, tigers, goats, and things
We got a camel and a wild boar
We got a popcorn , soda, and ice cream stand
Take the kids to the animal poster store
You can laugh at the chimps and orangutans
Take a picture with the ape of the day
If all these folks are having such fun
Why am I feeling this way
Chorus
I got the zoo blues
On the other side of the cage
I got those zoo blues
Working for the minimum wage
I think some of those monkeys are starting to see
That it might be fun to throw some bars around me
I got the zoo bee doo bee doo bee doo blues
Somebody get me the key
We got the penguins in the penguin pool
Got the pigs rolling in the slop
The alligator saying , "It's cold around here"
While the polar bear is saying, "It's hot"
And the platypus, in self analysis
Trying to figure out what the hell he is
I'm here grabbing garbage from the ground
Putting it under the lid (Chorus)
The zoo keeper is a nice old man, nice but getting slow
Pretty soon he's gonna die and if I get the key
I'm gonna let them all go
Elephants and hippos dancing free in the streets
There's no way we could fail
'cause the worst thing could happen
Be the cops coming 'round
And throwing them back in jail
(Chorus)

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released September 1, 2016
Produced by Neil Jay Young and Bill Thompson. Guitar and Vocal David Shepherd Grossman

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