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Ellie, the elephant had a trunk
Like all elephants do,
And she had really big ears
And really pretty eyes too.
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Ellie loved to play with
her friends
In the park, beside
the stream
Down by the big trees
Oh! It was such a dream
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They chased each other
And played hide and seek
Marbles, jump-rope,
hopscotch,
All through the week
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They had so much fun
The lil' jungle tots
Playing together
all day the nutty
animal crackpots
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Ellie loved her friends
And they loved her too
But that's not what
this story's about…
Oh! I gotta tell you...
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Brace yourself,
and I'll let you in
On something about Ellie
She hated having a bath
Oooh! The little elephant
was so smelly
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Her Momma tried telling her
That decent elephants
have a bath
Ellie wouldn't listen to her
And instead went on
the warpath!
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"I won't bathe," she said
"No Momma, I surely
will not dip
My lovely self into
the cold stream
That's not at all very hip!"
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"I just hate to go in
And splash about
like a chipmunk
No, no, no water for me
Not even on my trunk!"
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"You'll smell terrible,"
said Momma
"And nobody will play with you
You will have germs all over
So, bathe my darling, do!"
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But Ellie just tossed her head
What a bad little elephant!
She should have listened
to her mother
You'll know why in a moment
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A day passed and then two
And Ellie began to smell,
She had germs all over
'Coz she didn't bathe,
well, well, well...
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She went to the park to play
With Blippo, Rocko
and the lot,
She wanted to swing
and slide and do the seesaw
And heaven know what not...
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Here was Rocko
on the seesaw
He waved to Ellie to join him,
But when she came over
Rocko's face was very grim.
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He could smell something bad
And it was definitely
coming from Ellie,
Oh he had never seen
And elephant that
was so smelly.
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He got off and ran away
Saying he needed to
help his mum,
But Ellie knew that
was not true
So what was the matter
with her chum?
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Gina saw Rocko run away
And asked Ellie to join her
at the swing,
But when the elephant
got there Gina knew
somebody needed
a good scrubbing
She ran off too, like
Rocko the rhino
As fast as her long legs
would take her,
For how do you tell a
friend she's smelly
And that you need
a little breather.
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Blippo was puzzled by
all this action
And asked Ellie to join
him as he slid,
Down the giant slide,
that he loved so much
That little bubble-headed
hippo kid.
Ellie went up to him
And Blippo smelt her, too,
What was the matter with Ellie
Smelling so terrible. Pooh!
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So Blippo scooted, too
And so did the
monkey twins,
Leaving Ellie a
little teary-eyed
Oh! I'll show them,
the rude bumpkins!
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She ran home to her Momma
"They won't play with me,"
she said
"They are so rude, so mean
Even Rocko's a big blockhead"
"Is that surprising?"
said her Momma
"You smell like a
dish gone bad
Didn't I tell you,
you gotta scrub
And have a bath, if I may add."
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She hauled Elllie
to the stream
And gave her a good scrub,
And then little Ellie found
That a bath was better
than a snub.
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Now sweet smelling Ellie plays
Happily with her pals,
And you know why they
wink at each other
When there's talk
of smelly gals!
