Lion's Roaring Day

In the jungle, bright and gay, Mr. Lion woke to say,

"Time to start my roaring day. Rah, rah! Hip hooray!"

He stretched his paws and shook his mane, roared so loud it shook the

plain. Monkey laughed, "You sound the same, every morning,

Lion Jane." Elephant came stomping through, trumpeted a greeting too,

"Practice roaring loud or new, we all love the sound of you."

So Lion tried a gentle roar, soft at first, then more and more,

till the jungle shook the floor, echoing forevermore. At sunset when the sky turned