Larry Read: Music
I'd Rather Have Butterflies
(Larry Read)
2008-04-29
My brother likes creepy things
Like mice, bats and snakes.
He’s always fishing slimy things
From ponds, swamps and lakes.
I think he won the Guinness book
With his big fat slug…
But the yuckiest thing he ever took,
Was that hairy, eight-legged bug!
He has a huge bug collection
That lives in our garage
A centipede and weevils,
Fat flies for his fat frogs
He has a bowl of leeches
And a rhino-beetle too
He owns a swarm of locust
Any strange bug will do.
I’d rather have butterflies flittin’ about my room!
I’d like to see new ones hatch from their cocoons
I want to have a rabbit house in my dresser drawer.
I’d rather have a puppy sittin’ upon my floor!
He has a gecko lizard
That really isn’t bad
But that trap door spider
Is driving us all quite mad!
I suppose he’d get a crocodile
To accompany his snake
But with all these creepy critters,
It’s all mom and dad can take!
Oh, I’d rather have butterflies flittin’ about my room!
I’d like to see new ones hatch from their cocoons
I’d like to have a rabbit house in my dresser drawer.
I’d rather have a puppy sit upon my floor!
His monkeys ate the cookies,
The weasel’s on the loose.
The possum ate the candies,
We all slip on slug ooze.
The frogs live in the guest bathroom,
Along with his pet eel.
The skunk has found my bedroom
And the mosquitos think I’m their meal!
But, I’d rather have butterflies flittin’ about my room!
I’d like to see new ones hatch from their cocoons
I want to have a rabbit house in my dresser drawer.
I’d rather have a puppy sittin’ upon my floor!
This is a disaster
We don’t know what to do
Our entire house is turning
Into some sort of crazy zoo
So Dad’s going on vacation
Mom’s gonna live inside her car
Our neighbors have left the nation
And I think it’s all bizarre!
Oh I’d rather have butterflies flittin’ about my room!
I’d like to see new ones hatch from their cocoons
I want to have a rabbit house in my dresser drawer.
I’d rather have a puppy sittin’ upon my floor!