Nellie the Elephant

Rowing on Tuesday was suspended by an ebb tide and strong winds, but had a stonking good walk with William up to the ridge then right along the fire road over Mount San Pedro. Stefan collected us at the other end and we had a Thai lunch which made me swear never to cook for myself again, we were hungry of course but it was perfect, hot sour soup glinting with flakes of chili. Now that I know the road I'll do it again - as it was we took several false turns in spite of GoogleEarth, so I'm glad he was with me.

I was sitting idly by my cup of tea when I remembered:
"Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk
And said goodbye to the circus..."

but that was all I could remember. So-


To Bombay
A traveling circus came
They brought an intelligent elephant
And Nellie was her name
One dark night
She slipped her iron chain
And off she ran to Hindustan
And was never seen again

Ooooooooooooo...

Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk
And said goodbye to the circus
Off she went with a trumpety-trump
Trump, trump, trump
Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk
And trundled back to the jungle
Off she went with a trumpety-trump
Trump, trump, trump

Night by night
She danced to the circus band
When Nellie was leading the big parade
She looked so proud and grand
No more tricks
For Nellie to perform
They taught her how to take a bow
And she took the crowd by storm

The head of the herd was calling
Far, far away
They met one night in the silver light
On the road to Mandalay
So Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk
And said goodbye to the circus
Off she went with a trumpety-trump
Trump, trump, trump

Ooooooooooooo...

Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk
And said goodbye to the circus
Off she went with a trumpety-trump
Trump, trump, trump
Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk
And trundled back to the jungle
Off she went with a trumpety-trump
Trump, trump, trump