Melanie Safka
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Animal Crackers

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Animal Crackers

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Oh, eat your animal crackers

'Cause my mother told me so long ago,

"If you eat your animal crakers,

The children in Europe won't starve anymore".

Hahaha hahahaha hahaha.

Oh I love eating icecream,

Chocolate, vanilla and butter pecan,

But I best love animal crackers

'Cause I love helping my fellow man.

Yeah, I eat more crackers than anyone can

Hahaha haha.

(I forgot the words.... ONCE! Thank you!)

Once I went on a diet

(that's the freudian part, is it, when I forget it)

Once I went on a diet

A carbohydrate diet ain't nice

'Cause you can't eat animal crackers.

So, I'm gonna stay a fatty for all of my life,

Hahaha hahaha.

But some people think that fatties are nice, yeah.

Did you ever hear of Alice's restaurant?

I eat at Alice's restaurant year after year.

She makes an animal cracker pizza, ha

And she gives animal crackers out free with the beer.

Oh, let's give Alice a great big cheer.

She knows the age...

Ah, animal crackers are in this year!

Ha ha hahaha.

Oh, lalalalala lala lala

I wrote this song in Columbus, Missouri.

I was... had a day off, so I, I wanted to go to the country,

and that wasn't very difficult because the country was...

Columbus, Missouri is the country.

And I walked outside my door and I saw a big cow and I said,

"Oh, moo, you know, don't you, you know that I don't eat cows?"

And the cow didn't say anything except: "Mmmm, Melanie".

And so, and so I wrote him this song,

and I wrote it really for all the cows.

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