Gertrude:

There once was a girl bird

Named Gertrude McFuzz

And she had the smallest 

Plain tail ever was.

One droppy drop feather

That's all that she had

And, oh, that one feather

Made Gertrude so sad.



She curled it, she dyed it,

She gave it a puff

She decked it with flowers

But it wasn't enough



For no matter what

It just was what it was

A tail that simply wasn't meant

To catch the eye of an elephant

The one-feater tail of

Miss Gertrude McFuzz.