The Story Of Flipper lyrics

I was talking for three days

Headed for England

Just to make the swinging scene

When my raft got blown up

Torpedoed by an Eskimo submarine

I swam for three days

I swam for three nights

I finally rested upon a log

When I bumped head on into a easy fish

Was lost upon the fog

I told a my hard luck story

And at the raft I was the skipper

He said: "Mop an aboard"

I'm goin' take you to share

On the friendly Dolphin flipper

Well, he flipped his real to me

And all couldn't be as fine

Everytime I thought about it

I nearly blew my mine

It was in about three days travelling time

We finally made it to the shore

I handed him a five dollar bill

He replied: "Man, what's this for?"

I said I'm awfully sorry man

Wish I could have paid you more

He said: "That's quite all right

I understand me fish bean underpaid before"

I don't need your five dollar bill man

And I know just where it's been

Can't you see I'm a fish man

Don't need another fin

Just then I rode off his back

And I swam three hundred feet to land

And I saw him wave goodbye with his fin

He did that because he did not have a hand

Well, I was kinda shook up at the whole scene

I didn't really know where it was it

But thirsty natives were chasing me

And I did not fancy that

So I ran up the side of the mountain

And I rested beneath the tree

When I woke up Rip Van Wrinkle he smiled

And said: "How are we"

I ask him where his phone was

And it really was true

He said: "Yes, the phone is just around the corner"

It's red, white and blue

Well, just then he shook my hand

I started running for his life

And I heard him say as he left me

He said he had a nagging wife

I was shimmied upside the coconut tree

To see the pay-phone

When I discovered I'd dialled the wrong number

And my phone dime was gone

So I decided it was about time to move on

And I climbed down from the tree

Well, there were thirty natives

And they were down at the bottom all looking up at me

They told me to come on down

Because this just wanted to use their phone

And if I come down in a hurry

They were going to help me find my home

So like a fool I believed them

And I come down from the tree

And really Saint Peter that's exactly

What happened to me

That's all man!!!

• Artist:1910 Fruitgum Company
• Album:Simon Says (1968)