Tonalité : G major
Verse 1
The
G
Elephants and the
Mice
Once upon a time,
in a land far away,
mice danced and played every day.
They lived in the most beautiful city.
D
Their gold and pink houses were so pretty.
G
In a big palace lived the king of the mice.
C
Like all of the mice,
D
he was kind and nice.
Em
D
He often strolled near the
C
river to think.
Bm
C
Its water was clean and sweet
D
to drink.
G
Em
D
Far from the city were trees tall an d green.
G
Bm
D
In this forest an elephant was queen.
G
Em
D
Her elephant herd lived happily there.
G
Their friends were tigers,
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G
D
birds and bears.
G
Bm
G
C
Inside the big forest was a lake where
D
Em
everyone liked to splash and shake.
D
C
Bm
Just like the mice, these animals too loved to
C
D
drink water that was sparkling blue.
Em
G
D
This lake had begun to dry up though.
Bm
C
Lower and lower it started to go.
Am
D
Bm
Then the sun got hotter and hotter.
Em
G
Soon there wasn't any more wa ter.
D
F
What shall we do?
Em
the elephants cried.
Queen
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D
G
Elephant, the lake has
all dried.
Em
They trumpeted their trunks in despair.
Bm
G
Em
The wa ter they needed wasn't there.
The
G
Queen flapped her ears
and thought what to do.
D
Elephants? she declared and
trumpeted too.
G
D
We need new clean water to drink from.
G
D
Our strongest elephants must find some.
G
The strong elephants left the forest.
C
D
They travelled for days without a rest.
Em
D
C
Finally, ahead they saw
Bm
something glimmer.
C
It was the wa ter of a sparkling river!
D
G
This was the river
near the city of mice.
C
Its water tasted so fresh and nice!
G
The elephants went back and told the
D
Queen.
G
Soon, all of them left the forest green.
C
The king of the mice gaped
with surprise.
D
Huge grey elephants!
Em
D
He rubbed his eyes.
C
Bm
They were drinking the river water up,
C
D
us ing their curved trunks just like a cup.
G
The other mice all
D
rushed up to him then.
C
King
G
Mouse, there are elephants again!
We're worried they'll
drink all the water!
Em
Meanwhile, the sun was growing hotter.
D
Bm
The king thought and then
gave a smile.
C
D
Don't worry, we'll fix this up in a while.
G
He went to tell
C
the elephant queen his plan.
D
She was sitting under a green
G
palm fan.
C
G
Welcome to our city, the kind king said.
D
Thank you, said the
Em
G
Queen, bowing her head.
There is just a little thing, said the
King, and he told her
what he was thinking.
Said the
Queen, what a marvellous idea!
Em
C
Let's split the water so we can all share.
D
G
C
If they built a dam in the river's centre,
G
Em
C
everyone would get along better.
D
G
The elephants carried bricks
on their backs.
D
The mice stacked them up
Em
in great big stacks.
C
D
G
Soon they'd built a dam,
sturdy and strong.
Now there were two
rivers to drink from.
Hooray!
G
The mice cheered and danced.
Am
D
Bm
The elephants trumpeted and pranced.
G
C
Long did the
D
King and
G
Queen reign,
and they never went thirsty again.
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