'Sunday' in the zoo with chimps
Last Edit: WaymanWong 11:47 pm EDT 11/01/24
Posted by: WaymanWong 11:42 pm EDT 11/01/24
In reply to: Tell on Sunday - Chimpanzee lyric and other primates in song - davidack 10:36 pm EDT 11/01/24

''Take me to a zoo that's got chimpanzees ...''

I agree that it's a clunky phrase, but Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the lovely melody. Don Black wrote the lyrics to ''Tell Me on a Sunday.''

What's always puzzled me is WHY it's got to be ''a zoo that's got chimpanzees.'' As opposed to all the zoos that DON'T have chimpanzees?

That's prefaced by: ''I know the way we should spend that day.'' Is going to the zoo and seeing chimpanzees especially relaxing and comforting?

Earlier in the song: ''Take me to a park that's covered with trees.'' Don't most parks have lots of trees? Are there parks that are barren of trees?

Black is a Tony winner for his lyrics to ''Sunset Blvd'' and an Oscar winner for ''Born Free,'' but maybe this ''Sunday'' lyric isn't his best work.
Link Bernadette Peters: 'Tell Me on a Sunday'
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