Camp Songs #1

She sailed away
On a sunny summer day
On the back of a crocodile
She said, said she,
"He's as tame as he can be;
I'll ride him down the Nile."
Well the croc winked his eye,
As she bade them all goodbye,
Wearing a happy smile
At the end of the ride,
The lady was inside,
And the smile was on the crocodile!

The Purist

I give you now Professor Twist,
A conscientious scientist.
Trustees exclaimed, “He never bungles!”
And sent him off to distant jungles.
Camped on a tropic riverside,
One day he missed his loving bride.
She had, the guide informed him later,
Been eaten by an alligator.
Professor Twist could not but smile.
“You mean,” he said, “a crocodile.”

-Ogden Nash