Background collage: Mum and baby Melia, Mum and grown up Melia, Mum, Dad and baby Sweetiepete, and Mum and Kelly
Debby Romanski... 1950 - 2001

 

PARTY ANIMALS

DID YOU EVER WONDER
WHAT THE ANIMALS DO
WHEN YOU'RE FAST ASLEEP
(AND I AM TOO)?


THOSE LAZY BUMS
THEY SLEEP ALL DAY
WHEN NIGHT TIME COMES
THEY PARTY AWAY!


SOME BLOW UP BALLOONS
SOME TOOT ON A HORN
ALL OF THEM BOOGIE
FROM SUN DOWN TO MORN,


THEY FILL UP THE NIGHT TIME
FROM P.M. TO A.M.
WITH GIGGLES AND WIGGLES
AND MADCAP MAYHEM!


WHEN THE MOON GOES DOWN
AND THE SUN POPS UP
THESE PARTY ANIMALS
KNOW IT'S TIME TO STOP.


SO BEFORE WE WAKE UP
(WE HUMANS, I MEAN),
THEY HALT THE FESTIVITIES
AND BEGIN TO CLEAN.


THEY SWEEP THE CONFETTI
INTO NEAT LITTLE PILES
WINKING AND NUDGING AND
SHARING SECRET SMILES.


jUST WHEN IT'S TIME
FOR OUR EYES TO OPEN
THE ANIMALS YAWN
AND EACH ONE IS HOPIN'


THAT YOU AND I
WILL CONSIDERATELY CREEP
THROUGHOUT OUR DAY--
WHILE THEY GET THEIR SLEEP!


SOME NIGHT, IF YOU CAN,
JUST PRETEND TO SLEEP,
BUT KEEP ONE EYE OPEN
AND READY TO PEEP.


PERHAPS YOU'LL BE LUCKY
(THERE'S ALWAYS A CHANCE)
PERHAPS THEY'LL ASK YOU
TO COME TO THEIR DANCE!

YOU LUCKY DOG!

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