Did you ever see anything zanier
Than these marsupials from Tasmania?
They sit on their haunches
And thrust out their paunches
With snouts that a crowd o’
Red elk ’ud be proud o’
And arms that are shorter
Than Thomas Thumb’s daughter
And legs that are longer
And meaner and stronger
Than heavyweight champ Riddick Bowe
Did you ever hear anything more comical
Than the name of this freak anatomical?
James Cook made a blunder
While he was Down Under
When asking a native
To be nomenclative
He answered quite freely
He had no clue really
And so “kangaroo”
When it made its début
Was the tribal word for “I don’t know!”