Ted used to dance a lot until, one day while at the zoo,
caged hippos saw him make his moves. One ran away, she knew
that Ted could teach her how to dance. So to his arms she flew.
When a hippo wants to dance with you, your dancing-days are through,
for largely they are lumbering lumps that plod and thud around,
so few of these huge creatures on the dancing-floor are found.
They tend to bump when they should grind, they sometimes dump a pound
of shit upon the dancing-floor. They roll upon the ground,
which is why a dancing hippo is so strangely out of place.
But she just loved to dance with him, with a smile upon her face,
while he'd be shelling out his cash for every broken vase,
until he'd had enough of her and sprayed her with his mace.