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Oliver’s One-Man Band

Oliver Oscar Octopus

Is stirring the sea and the sand

Ollie plays all of the instruments

In “Oliver’s One-Man Band”

Oliver’s tooting a tuba

And crashing away on his drum

Oliver’s plucking a banjo

As all of his lobster friends hum

Oliver bashes the cymbals

While sawing the violin strings

It sounds like a heavenly choir

When Ollie the Octopus sings

This song’s his famous finale,

A tune called “The Tuna Got Canned”

Now there’s a rousing ovation

As Ollie’s eight arms get a hand!

    ~Jeff Mondak

To hear this poem performed as a song by Bobby Maestas, click here. 

All poems copyright © by Jeff Mondak