Hare was here Hare was there
warming up combing hair
And the tortoise walked along
The pistol went off
Hare was on Hare was off
And the tortoise crawled
along
When near all was done
The Race did seem won
Cheering was all for Young Hare
Where? Where was Tortoise?
No hair nor hide
He had mistakenly taken a mistaken turn
Through the Glen
Round a stream
throughthroughthicketthinorthick Fruity groves and lets put out to sea! To SEA?
Wherever is this confounded race taking me?
Oh well just fiip on flip on flip on
～ ～ ～
Marco Father Uncle sailed
for the realm of Kublai Khan with oil of lamp as was his demand,
Was 1271 and without fair sail they trekked overland,
The Silk Road
Three years half
Bandits Sandstorm
The Palace Shangdu
Kublai Khan
And the tortoise trudged along
1281 Mongol Invasion
Hakata Bay Mighty Heralded Fight
Hisano Jiro he boarded a ship took heads set it alight
And the tortoise slid along
And the tortoise slid along
Mongol Fleet took refuge
in the Bay of Imari
Clouds brewed from the West
The Divinity Kamikaze
And the tortoise floated on
Poor KingJohn from Scotland
couldn\'t keephis throne
1296 imprisoned in a
Londonous Tower
abject brokencrown abject
brokensceptre abject empty
crest
Not a king till Robert the Bruce
rode up in 1306
And the tortoise flippered on
Aug3 1492 Columbus set sail from Palos de la Frontera together with Nina and Pinta
He boarded the Santa Maria
And the tortoise paddled on
And the tortoise paddled on
They sailed upon an isle
Guanahani
located among the Bahama Archipelagoes
Though he renamed it
San Salvador and the Peoples Indios
And the tortoise swam along
And the tortoise swam along
And the tortoise swam along