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Please Don’t Call Me a Koala Bear Lyrics by Don Spencer

Feathers, Fur or Fins

1986

[Verse 1]
I'm a koala, not a bear
And I don't think it's fair
The way that people always add a word that isn't there
I'm a marsupial, and proud of it
And there can be no doubt of it
I'm closer to a kangaroo than I am to a bear
[Chorus]
So please don't call me a koala bear
'Cause I'm not a bear at all
Please don't call me a koala bear
It's driving me up the wall
If your name was Tom
And everyone called you Dick
Perhaps you'd understand why I'm sick, sick, sick
I'm simply a koala
And I want the name to stick
So please don't call me a koala bear
[Verse 2]
I live here in Australia, in a eucalyptus tree
I'm as cuddly, cute and charming as an animal can be
I don't undеrstand fair dinkum
How anyone could think them
Grizzly bears and polar bеars are anything like me
[Chorus]
So please don't call me a koala bear
'Cause I'm not a bear at all
Oh, please don't call me a koala bear
It's driving me up the wall
If your name was Tom
And everyone called you Dick
Perhaps you'd understand why I'm sick, sick, sick
I'm simply a koala
And I want the name to stick
So please don't call me a koala bear
[Chorus]
Oh, please don't call me a koala bear
'Cause I'm not a bear at all
Oh, please don't call me a koala bear
It's driving me up the wall
If your name was Tom
And everyone called you Dick
Perhaps you'd understand why I'm sick, sick, sick
I'm simply a koala
And I want the name to stick
So please don't call me a koala bear
[Outro]
I mean, how much can a koala bear?
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Don Spencer

Don Spencer

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