The Bug That Tried To Crawl Around The World

(album: Everybody Loves A Nut - 1966)

Now you've heard of folks with a lot of ambition
But I believe just about the biggest case of ambition I ever saw
Was in a bug that I saw crawling along the beach one day
He was a mighty ambitious bug
On the beach one early morning as a day was newly dawning
And the sun again was warming all the chill thru'out the land
I saw me a bug a walking and at first I thought he was quaking
Then I found out he was talking while he crawled across the sand
He was crawling mighty straight at a slow but a steady gait
And when I asked him to wait he said oh come on crawl with me
But I said where you going and he said you'll be knowing
For I'm gonna make a showing and you'll someday see
Well I stood there by the ocean I suddenly had the notion
That I start this big promotion so this challenge I enfirled said the bug
So I gave my wife a hug and I left my confy rug
So I could be the only bug that ever crawled around the world
Well he seemed mighty small and it was a long way to crawl
And I'm sure he couldn't swim at all so I try to discourage my friend
I said you know the world is round and there's mighty lotta ground
And there some water to be found before you reach your journey's end
And he said now don't you fret there's problems to be met
But I'll make it you can bet and this deed will bring glory to my name
You know they said man would never fly now he's soaring in the sky
Cause he had the will to try so let me win my fame
So he crawled on out of sight as he sought that splendoured height
Neither looking left nor right but slowly marching toward his goal
And my knowing he had started on his journey as we parted
Kept me from feeling too down hearted for he was a mighty ambitious soul
Well I've looked everywhere I've been and seen a lotta bugs since then
But not one quite like my little friend when I think of him I'm filled with pride
Did he make it I don't know he was crawling mighty slow and he had a long way to go
And all I can tell you folks is that he tried he sure was an ambitious bug