The Llama Song

So at work today a student submitted the following, please read and laugh!

IN PRAISE OF LLAMAS

La-la-llamas rate as mammals
Much resembling baby camels,
And their appellation’s hard to speak and spell,
For it seems, when Adam uttered
Their baptismal name, he stuttered,
Hence we always must reduplicate the “L.”

Those Peruvians, the Incas,
On their lonely mountain fincas
(Which is Spanish for plantations, ranches, farms)
Reared, instead of Leghorns, Brahmas
And Minorcas, La-la-llamas
With Alpacas who have corresponding charms

Through Andean panoramas
Wind the herds of La-la-llamas
Skirting precipices dangerously steep,
Over swinging bridge or ferry
To some La-la-llamaserai
Or wherever La-la-lamas stop to sleep.

Lively lambkin La-la-lamas
Trot beside their ma-ma-ma-mas
Lightly dancing when their parents pause to graze;
Lovely lady La-la-lamas
Look like queens of movie dramas
With their melting eyes and soft, coquettish ways.

And they splash across lagunas
With their cousins, the Vicunas
And Guanacos, bearing loads upon their backs;
And these useful La-la-lamas
Furnish wool to make pajamas
And to help their owners pay the income tax.

So be happy, La-la-lamas
Climbing Western Fujiyamas
Or descending to the vega’s fertile floor!
Thrive and flourish, La-la-lamas,
In a climb like Alabama’s
In Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador!

Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943)


Which then made me think of this:





What a fantastic day today. hahahaha! Love life.