Zoe The Zebra

(album: Best Of Alphabet Zoo - 1983)

Stripes! I'm up to here with them
Stripes! When all is said and done
What's so very good about being black and white
There's thousands of us in the herd who all look alike

So, just for a laugh
I'll pretend to be a giraffe
Eating all the top leaves, who could blame
Me for not wanting to be looking just the same
As all the other zebras (although they're very nice)
I'm simply bored to tears with my black and white

Stripes! I'm up to here with them
Stripes! When all is said and done
What's so very good about being black and white
There's thousands of us in the herd who all look alike

There are such a lot of us
I will be a hippopotamus
Splashing in the water, what a smashing game
I'm so fed up with looking just the same
As all the other zebras (although they're very nice)
I'm simply bored to tears with my black and white

Stripes! I'm up to here with them
Stripes! When all is said and done
What's so very good about being black and white
There's thousands of us in the herd who all look alike

Maybe it's worth trying
I'd stick some dry grass on and tried to look like a lion
Til along came a real one and made me ashamed
And now I don't mind looking just the same
As all the other zebras who think I'm brave and nice
Now you won't hear me complain again about my

Stripes! In fact they're really rather nice!
Though there's thousands of us and we all look alike
Having black and white stripes is all right!