A Gnu In My Shoe / Gnŵ yn fy Esgid by Simon Ager

This is a silly little ditty I came up with in January 2014. It's kind of palindromic or circular, in that it finishes where it starts, more or less.

I know that the g in gnu, gnat and gnome is usually not pronounced, but I think these words sound funnier with it.

I made this recording in June 2017 on ukuleles (sopranino, tenor and baritone), kazoo, melodica, swanee whistle and shaky egg. I recorded the vocals, tenor ukulele and shaky egg together, and the other instruments separately, apart from the last refrain, when I play the kazoo, as well as the uke and the egg.

Here are the words:

A Gnu in My Shoe
There's a gnu in my shoe
Paddling a blue suede canoe
And playing the kazoo
Oh what shall I do?

There's a gnat in my hat
Playing poker with a bat
And a cat in a cravat
Oh what do you think about that?

There's a gnome in my home
Playing cricket with a comb
And a rabbit from Rome
Oh I'm in such of a foam.

Oh what shall I do
About the gnu in my shoe
And the gnat in my hat
And the gnome in my home?

Oh I'm in such of a foam
About a rabbit from Rome
Playing cricket with a comb
With the gnome in my home.

Oh what do you think about that?
There's a cat in a cravat
Playing poker with a bat
And the gnat in my hat.

Oh what shall I do?
He's playing the kazoo
And paddling a blue suede canoe
That gnu in my shoe.

The chords are C, Am, G, F.