It’s already the third December Monday of 2024. And with temps, here in the heart of the heartland, lingering in the 20’s and 30’s at night, naturally my imagination wanders off into island time.
What? A December Monday doesn’t affect you that way?
Well, maybe that’s just because you haven’t waxed, poetically, about what’s waning gibbous out there in the middle of the night. No, I’m not talking about the street zombies with their convex or protuberant eyes. I’m talking about that beautiul moon with its observable illuminated part greater than a semicircle and less than a circle.
It was a similar sort of day and night, way back in 1976, when I wrote the lyrical story about a very special elephant from Puerto Rico. And it was winter time in the heart of the heartland, then, too. Which, of course, helps you conjure up images of sunny beaches and warm temps.
So, that’s why I picked this third December Monday, near the end of 2024, to share the following lyrics. They’re just for fun. Because I want you to get your week started off on the right foot. Full of love, Light, and laughter.
Marimba, The Yellow Elephant
They got a lotta pretty, white beach in Puerto Rico
Where you can hear the tambourines and castanets,
But the finest thing they got is a yellow elephant.
He named Marimba, a friend you can’t forget.
You may say you never heard of a yellow elephant,
But it’s true, and Marimba, he quite a lucky guy.
You see he stays as yellow as Puerto Rican bananas
By basking ‘neath the balmy Puerto Rico sky.
Marimba, Marimba…you lucky elephant…
Lying in the sand like a seashell.
You got Mister Blue Ocean to put you to sleep.
You get oh so drowsy from the stories he tell.
They got places down there that look like pictures.
They got weather that is sunny all day long,
But nothing can compare with the yellow elephant.
I ask you, am I right or am I wrong?
Come to Puerto Rico.
Come to see the sights,
But most of all come to see Marimba.
It’s like looking at a thousand yellow light.
© 1976 Tony Funderburk
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