Now It Was Mother Owl Who Woke The Sun Each Day So That The Dawn Could Come

One Morning A Mosquito Saw An Iguana Drinking At A Waterhole Iguana You Will Never Believe What I Saw Yesterday Try Me Said The Iguana The Mosquito Said I Saw A Farmer Digging Yams That Were Almost Big As I Am What's A Mosquito Compared To A Yam Snapped The Iguana I Would Rather Be Deaf Than Listen To Such Nonsense Then He Stuck Two Sticks In His Ears And Went Off Mek Mek Mek

Through The Reeds The Iguana Was Still Grumbling To Himself When He Happened To Pass By A Python Good Morning Iguana The Iguana Did Not Answer But Lumbered On Badamin Badamin Now Why Won't He Speak To Me Said The Python To Himself I'm Afraid He's Plotting Some Mischief Against Me

He Began Looking Somewhere To Hide The First Likely Place He Found Was A Rabbit Hole And In It He Went Wasawusu Wasawusu When The Rabbit Saw The Big Snake Coming Into Her Burrow She Was Terrified She Scurried Out Through Her Back Way And Bounded Krik Krik Krik Across A Clearing

A Crow Saw The Rabbit Running For Her Life It Was His Duty To Spread The Alarm In Case Of Danger

A Monkey Heard The Crow He Was Sure That Some Dangerous Beast Was Prowling Near

As The Monkey Was Crashing Through The Treetops He Happened To Land On A Dead Limb It Broke And Fell On The Owl's Nest Killing One Of The Owlets

When Mother Owl Returned To The Nest She Found One Of Them Dead Her Other Children Told Her That The Monkey Had Killed It All That Night She Sat In Her Tree So Sad So Sad So Sad When She Should Have Hooted For The Sun She Did Not Do It

The Night Grew Longer And Longer The Animals Of The Forest Knew It Was Lasting Much Too Long They Fear That The Sun Would Never Come Back At Last King Lion Called A Meeting Of The Animals They Came And Sat Down Pem Pem Pem Around A Council Fire King Lion Asked Mother Owl Why Have You Not Called The Sun The Night Has Lasted Long Long Long And Everyone Is Worried

Mother Owl Said Monkey Killed One Of My Owlets Because Of That I Cannot Bear To Wake The Sun

So It Was The Monkey Who Killed The Owlet And Now Mother Owl Won't Wake The Sun So That The Day Can Come Then King Lion Called The Monkey Monkey Said The King Why Did You Kill One Of Mother Owl's Babies

Oh King Said The Monkey It Was The Crow's Fault He Was Calling And Calling To Warn Us A Danger And I Went Leaping Through The Trees To Help A Limb Broke Under Me And It Fell Ta On The Owl's Nest

The King Said To The Council So It Was The Crow Who Alarmed The Monkey Who Killed The Owlet And Now Mother Owl Won't Wake The Sun So That The Day Can Come

Then The King Called For The Crow He Said King Lion It Was The Rabbit's Fault I Saw Her Running For Her Life In The Daytime Wasn't That Reason Enough To Spread An Alarm

The King Nodded His Head And Said To The Council So It Was The Rabbit Who Startled The Crow Who Alarmed The Monkey Who Killed The Owlet And Now Mother Owl Won't Wake The Sun So That The Day Can Come Rabbit Cried The King Why Did You Break A Law Of Nature And Go Running Running Running In The Daytime

Oh King Said The Rabbit It Was The Python's Fault I Was In My House Minding My Own Business When That Big Snake Came In And Chased Me Out

The King Said To The Council It Was The Python Who Scared The Rabbit Who Startled The Crow Who Alarmed The Monkey Who Killed The Owlet And Now Mother Owl Won't Wake The Sun So That The Day Can Come

King Lion Called The Python Who Came Slithering Wasawusu Wasawusu Wasawusu Past The Other Animals But King He Cried It Was The Iguana's Fault He Wouldn't Speak To Me And I Thought He Was Plotting Some Mischief Against Me When I Crawled IntoThe Rabbit's Hole I Was Only Trying To Hide

The King Said To The Council So It Was The Iguana Who Frightened The Python Who Scared The Rabbit Who Startled The Crow Who Alarmed The Monkey Who Killed The Owlet And Now Mother Owl Won't Wake The Sun So That The Day Can Come