Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE BULLFROG, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH


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THE BULLFROG, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bullfrog he isn't some beautiful bird
Last Line: He could jump in the lake and get out of the wet.
Subject(s): Animals; Frogs


The bullfrog he isn't some beautiful bird,
But I notice a bullfrog will sing in the rain.
When the swallow shuts up and no robin is heard
Then the bullfrog keeps singing his cheery refrain,
Just his merry ker-chunk -- there, he's at it again!

Oh, the fair-weather bird sings a fair-weather song
When the sun's in the east and the blue in the sky,
But if only a rain-storm comes roaming along
Then the fair-weather bird finds a hole that is dry
And he hides him away till the clouds have rolled by.

But the bullfrog! Uh, uh! Does the bullfrog? Oh, no!
No, he isn't a fair-weather friend, you can bet.
For the knows we want song when the sky's dripping woe,
So he sits on a log and keeps singing -- and yet
He could jump in the lake and get out of the wet.





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