Navajo Animal Songs
1.
Chipmunk can't drag it along
can't drag it along
Chipmunk holds back his ears
2.
Chipmunk was standing
jerking his feet
with stripes
he's a very short chipmunk
3.
Mole makes his pole redhot
Says: I'll shove it up your ass
Says: feel how it shakes your belly
4.
Wildcat was walking
He ran down here
He got his feet in the water
He farted
Wow, wow! says Wildcat
5.
A turkey is dancing near the rocks
shoves out his pelvis
woops-a-daisy we all go crazy
6.
Big Rabbit goes to see his baby
pisses
pissing all around him
7.
Pinionjay shits pebbles
now he's empty
English versions by Jerome Rothenberg,
after David McAllester
Posted over on Poems and Poetics
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