Message: "Nelly the elephant packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus..."

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[Opinions] Nelly the elephant packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus...

by Amphelise (Chrisell)

4/30/2021, 1:51 AM

...Off she rode with a trumpety trump
Trump trump trump

I adore Nell, and Nelly is cute, but I would only use them as nicknames so that the child could choose not to go by them if the elephant connection came up!

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- mirfak +2

4/30/2021, 12:08 PM

OT - did you learn that song as a child, or did you first hear the Toy Dolls version?

- Amphelise (Chrisell) +1

4/30/2021, 1:25 PM

Neither, in fact! I first heard it in a CD of mid-20th-century children’s songs that Daniel had as a toddler. My wife grew up with it and, being an Eleanor, is *not* a fan lol.

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- Anneza

5/1/2021, 12:04 AM

I knew a man once who had been a DJ on campus radio (an Afrikaans-medium university, for what that's worth) when he was a student; not sure when that was but I think he was born in the mid-1960s. Anyway, he and the others decided out of the blue to play the Nelly The Elephant song, and it is catchy so they played it more than once, once they'd started. And the requests started coming in! He claimed that the national pop-rock radio station also picked up on it and gave it air time; I'd like to believe it, and why not?

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