The Crocodile Lyrics - Traditional

Well gather round me children
To tell the truth I'm bound
Here's a story 'bout when I went to sea
And the wonders that I found

Shipwrecked was I one wintery day
And cast out on the shore
I decided I'd wander away
The country to explore, explore
The country to explore

Well I had not long walked about
When there beside the ocean
'Twas there that I saw something move
Like all the earth in motion

Well I steered close beside the thing
And so it was a great big crocodile
From the end of its nose to the tip of its tail
About five hundred miles

Well the crocodile I could plainly see
Was not of the common race
And I had to climb up a big tall tree
Before I could see its face

But the wind was blowing hard up there
It was blowing a gale from the south
And I lost my hold on the big tall tree
And I fell right into the crocodile's mouth

Well the crocodile closed his jaws on me
He was gonna have a victim
But I ran down his throat you see
And that's the way that I tricked him

As I wandered around for a year or two
Till I finally reached his claw
And there was rum cakes not a few
And a thousand bullets in store

And I wandered around for a year or two
For grub I was not seeing
For I lived in the crocodile for ten years
Very, very well contented

Now the crocodile was very, very old
And late at long last he died
And he took six months to catch a cold
'Cause he was so long and wide

And his skin was ten miles thick I think
Or somewhere there about
For I was fully six months, boys
Digging my way out

The Crocodile Lyrics narrates a crocodile in a playful scenario The song the crocodile lyrics teaches imagination rhyme observation and memory It encourages children to engage in repetition and creative play The rhyme has been enjoyed for generations entertaining children while promoting literacy rhythm early cognitive and social development in homes and classrooms.