The Sea-Gull and the Ea-Gull

Music- Vernon Duke
Lyrics- Ogden Nash

A sea-gull met an ea-gull
In an ea-gloo way up North.
The sea-gull eyed the ea-gull
And the following words came forth:

I’m a sea-gull, you’re an ea-gull
You are re-gull, like a king,
You are royal like Standard Oyal,
So how about a royal fling?

I’m a sea-gull, you’re an ea-gull
It’s ille-gull, but sublime.
I’m a she-gull, without a he-gull
So why are we wasting time?

Said the sea-gull to the ea-gull:
My feathers you can see.
A duck has down, but I got no down,
You can never get down off me.

If the wee gull is half an ea-gull
Don’t imagine that I will fret,
Once I had one by a bea-gull
And I haven’t stopped laughing yet.

Said the ea-gull to the sea-gull
As he doffed his re-gull crown:
You’re a bad bird, you’re a bad, bad bird,
But you’re the only bird in town.


hearing an obvoiusly operatically trained singer, sing really dated slang is kind of weird