The Ostrich - Flanders & Swann

作曲：Donald Swann/Flanders

Peek-a-Boo I can't see you

Everything must be grand

Boo-ka-Pee they can't see me

As long as I've got me head in the sand

Peek-a-Boo it may be true

There's something in what you've said

But we've got enough troubles in everyday life

I just bury me head

Oh Ostrich consider hw the world we know

Is trembling on the brink

Have you heard the news may I hear your views

Will you tell me what you think

The Ostrich lifted its head from the sand

About an inch or so

'You will please excuse but disturbing news

I have no wish to know '

Oooh Peek-a-Boo I can't see you

Everything must be grand

Boo-ka-Pee they can't see me

As long as I've got me head in the sand

Peek-a-Boo it may be true

There's something in what you've said

But we've got enough troubles in everyday life

I just bury me head

Then I noticed suddenly where we were

I saw what time it was

Make haste I said It'll be too late

We must leave this place because

He stuffed his wingtips into his ears

He would not hear me speak

And back in the soft Saharan sand

He plunged his yellow beak

Oooh Peek-a-Boo I can't see you

Everything must be grand

Boo-ka-Pee they can't see me

As long as I've got me head in the sand

Peek-a-Boo it may be true

There's something in what you've said

But we've got enough troubles in everyday life

I just bury me

From a sheltered oasis a mile away

I observed that dreadful scene

And a single plume came floating down

Where my Ostrich friend had been

Because he could not bear the sound

Of these words I had left unsaid

'Here in this nuclear testing ground

Is no place to bury your head '