Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,
"Good gracious! How you hop over the fields, and the water too;
As if you would never stop!
My life is a bore in this nasty pond;
And I long to go out in the world beyond;
I wish I could hop like you,"
said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
"Please give me a ride on your back,"
said the Duck to the Kangaroo;
"I would sit quite still, and say nothing but 'Quack';
The whole of the long day through;
And we'd go to the Dee, And the Jelly Bo Lee,
over the land, and over the sea;
Please take me a ride! Oh, do!"
Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
Said the Kangaroo to the Duck,
"This requires some little reflection.
Perhaps, on the whole, it might bring me luck;
And there seems but one objection;
Which is, if you let me speak so bold,
your feet are unpleasantly wet and cold;
And would probably give me the roo - Matiz," said the Kangaroo.
Said the Duck, "As I sate on the rocks,
I have thought over that completely;
And I bought four pairs of worsted socks,
which fit my web-feet neatly;
And, to keep out the cold, I've bought a cloak;
And every day a cigar I'll smoke;
All to follow my own dear true love of a Kangaroo."
Said the Kangaroo, "I'm ready, all in the moonlight pale;
But to balance me well, dear Duck, sit steady,
and quite at the end of my tail."
So away they went with a hop and a bound;
And they hopped the whole world three times around.
And who so happy, oh!
Who, as the Duck and the Kangaroo.