Zonke Tina

Zonke Tina is a very strange name for a tortoise you'll agree
 If you listen along to the words of this song
 You'll learn how it came to be
 And all those cracks on tortoise backs
 Weren't caused because of speed
 It happened many years ago and all because of greed
 There once was a beautiful valley where the animals used to thrive
 But there came a very long drought and many just couldn't survive
 But the doves of the woods were lucky
 For the peace goddess of the sky
 Used to feed them up on the mountain
 Where each day they would fly
 So the tortoise said to all the doves fly me to that peak
 For I am so very hungry and I'm so very weak
 But the doves said you're not one of us and you should not intrude
 For if you're not her feathered friend
 the goddess won't give you food
 Zonke Tina is a very strange name for a tortoise you'll agree
 If you listen along to the words of this song
 you'll learn how it came to be
 And all those cracks on tortoise backs
 Weren't caused because of speed
 It happened many years ago and all because of greed
 You can disguise me said the tortoise if a feather each you'll take
 And stick them over my horny shell what a beautiful dove I'll make
 And you can call me Zonke Tina which means all of us
 And you could carry me up to the mountain top in you I really trust
 So the peace goddess called out from the peak
 Who do I feed today
 Zonke Tina said the tortoise and he chased all the doves away
 And he ate the food 'till he was full but overlooked the fact
 That he could not climb down from the peak because he was so fat
 Zonke Tina is a very strange name for a tortoise you'll agree
 If you listen along to the words of this song
 You'll learn how it came to be
 And all those cracks on tortoise backs
 Weren't caused because of speed
 It happened many years ago and all because of greed
 So he looked down from the mountain
 And below was a bed of straw
 But it really was a bed of stones that the poor old tortoise saw
 So he jumped down and he landed upon his horny back
 And his shell broke into smithereens and into a hundred cracks
 Zonke Tina is a very strange name for a tortoise you'll agree
 If you listen along to the words of this song
 You'll learn how it came to be
 And all those cracks on tortoise backs
 Weren't caused because of speed
 It happened many years ago and all because of greed