Lyric request: "I'm a Gnu"
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I'm a gnu, I'm a gnu, the gnicest work of gnature in the zoo.
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Oh gno gno gno, I'm a gnu.
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Frank Reid re...@ucs.indiana.edu
Penny Anderson
|> Looking for words and origin or song with refrain:
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|> I'm a gnu, I'm a gnu, the gnicest work of gnature in the zoo.
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|> Oh gno gno gno, I'm a gnu.
I can't remember much of it either, just
I'm a g-nu, how do you do?
You really ought to k-now w-ho's w-ho...
I think it's from "Beyond the Fringe", an album of witty songs put out in the
sixties by Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore. It includes the lyrical "Jaguar"
(Jag-u-ar, jag-u-ar, you are shining like a star, from afar, yes you are,
jag-u-ar) and the ecstatic "mud, mud, glorious mud, nothing quite like it for
cooling the blood/ so follow me, follow, down to the hollow, there we will
wallow in glorious mud". Ah, childhood memories. Does anyone know where to
get either recorded or printed versions of these songs?
Penny Anderson a...@cs.cmu.edu
Steve Savitzky
Looking for words and origin or song with refrain:
I'm a gnu, I'm a gnu, the gnicest work of gnature in the zoo.
...
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Oh gno gno gno, I'm a gnu.
Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, on their album _Bestiary_. It's
been too long since I listened to it, so I won't attempt to come up
with the words. Ignore anyone who tells you it was written by Richard
Stallman ;-)
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DoN Nichols
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>I'm a gnu, I'm a gnu, the gnicest work of gnature in the zoo.
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>Oh gno gno gno, I'm a gnu.
Sounds like one of the songs from Flanders & Swan(n?). I've heard
some of their songs, but never gotten my hands on a record, which explains
my uncertainty about the spelling of the names. I think the record from
which this one came had "Beastiary' in the title.
Good luck in finding the records (and if you do, please let me know
where!).
DoN.
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Michael Newbery
>>Looking for words and origin or song with refrain:
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>>I'm a gnu, I'm a gnu, the gnicest work of gnature in the zoo.
>> ...
>> ...
>>Oh gno gno gno, I'm a gnu.
Surprisingly, it's NOT on the Beastiary.
At The Drop Of A Hat---Flanders & Swann. EMI WM 2435 (P) 1960
1 A Transport of Delight
2 Song of Reproduction
3 The Gnu Song <--------
4 Design for Living
5 Je Suis el Tenebreux
6 Songs for Our Time (Philological Waltz; Satellite Moon; A Happy Song)
1 A Song of the Weather
2 The Reluctant Cannibal
3 Greensleeves
4 Misalliance
5 Madeira, M'Dear?
6 The Hippopotamus
The Bestiary of Flanders and Swann--Flanders & Swann. EMI WM 2591 (P) 1961
1 The Warthog
2 The Sea-Horse
3 The Chameleon
4 The Whale
5 The Sloth
6 The Rhinoceros
7 Twosome---Kang and Jag
1 Dead Ducks
2 The Elephant
3 The Armadillo
4 The Spider
5 Threesome---The Duck-billed Platypus; The Humming Bird; The Portuguese
Man-of-war
6 The Wild Boar
7 The Ostrich
8 The Wompom
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Nou Dadoun
(Steve Savitzky) writes:
>In article <1991Jun21....@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> com...@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (BACS Data Communications Group) writes:
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> Looking for words and origin or song with refrain:
>
> I'm a gnu, I'm a gnu, the gnicest work of gnature in the zoo.
> ...
> ...
> Oh gno gno gno, I'm a gnu.
>
>Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, on their album _Bestiary_. It's
>been too long since I listened to it, so I won't attempt to come up
>with the words.
It was Flanders and Swann and I believe its success inspired the Bestiary
album (they sing the refrain right at the beginning) but it actually
appears on one of the 'Drop of a Hat' albums, I can check at home.
All horribly out of print of course.
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>>>I'm a gnu, I'm a gnu, the gnicest work of gnature in the zoo.
>>> ...
>>> ...
>>>Oh gno gno gno, I'm a gnu.
Garrison Keillor did this some time last year
on American Radio Co. I've got a tape of it,
but will have to dig it out. Another one he did
(probably not related to the gnu song, but then
again...) was a song about a warthog (Nobody
wants to court a warthog..).
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