Going to the Zoo

DESCRIPTION: "Daddy's taking us to the zoo tomorrow... and we can stay all day." "We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo, You can come too, too, too." They will see various animals -- elephant, monkey, bear, seal. At the end, they go home tired
AUTHOR: Tom Paxton
EARLIEST DATE: 1961 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: animal nonballad father
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, p. 550, "Going to the Zoo" (notes only)
DT, GOINGTOZ
NOTES [102 words]: This was one of several Tom Paxton songs converted into illustrated books around the 1990s. It was illustrated by Karen Lee Schmidt and published by HarperCollins in 1996; there was apparently a second edition in 1999 by Scholastic.
I find it interesting that Tom Paxton has, as of this writing, five songs in the Index -- "The Marvelous Toy," "The Last Thing on My Mind," "My Ramblin' Boy," "Going to the Zoo," and "I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound" -- and all were written and recorded very early in his career. Nor have I seen any hints of any of his later songs matching those five in popularity. - RBW
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