I. My Lovely Manatee I dreamed myself a dugong swimming in the calm sea Where I fell in love there with a lovely manatee We were very happy and we always got along That is until she took up with a longer dugong Not to be long enough is tough alone in the rough sea Nor did I choose to lose my love my lovely manatee II. When Dugongs Do It Oh the humanity of a huge manatee Digging a big long dugong in the swim Swimming to her as it were as to him Meeting a manatee halfway wholeheartedly Too long since we had a manatee around The house a dugong lost but not yet found When dugongs do it and manatees mate Then again is when it is never too late When dugongs do it then we can do it too I can be a manatee again and so can you Splashing through the river flashing to the sea Dugong you along with manatee me III. Because He Was a Manatee A manatee got mad at me Because I smoked his grass His vanity offended thus he kicked my ass But gently though because he was a manatee IV. Man and Manatee As I could not eat The meat of a man The flesh of a big long dugong Would be too strong For me Too strong familiarity Wrong all along Nor could I eat Manatee meat Poor me In the breadline Not eating the meat But doing fine Though life is short if not for long Where the meat is beaten and eaten Our condition though fatal not serious But for manatee or man mysterious As it can be as we can see Man and manatee +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMXII