elegant donkey jackass

Harry Belafonte

I was walking down the road one day
When I pass a horse and a fat donkey
I overheard the donkey say
She was a movin up in society
Seem she merry common law
To a donkey man but he had no class
She wanted to make a baby but
Not if the father was an ass

The ways of the world are very strange
Laws and pagan never change
The elegant donkey wanted class
That s why they call she jack-ass
Jack-ass, Jack-ass, Jack-ass

Well it happen in the early Spring
When the circus came she went to see
Got to know an elephant
A little too intimately
Oh the elephant ask please merry me
The donkey agree oh pity she
It s too late now to change she mind
She s in society

Well now my friends the baby born
Half donkey, half elephant
And if you see the mother now
She s only got embarrassment
Say de baby is elite
Not a common ass as it should be
And when it walking down the street
The tail ain t where it ought to be