I copied this from someone who had answered this question on Answer Bank before:
Back to the zoo by Coral Hull
~the elephant is so slow~
�hadie, hadie ho, the great big elephant is so slow, she swings her
trunk from side to side, as she takes the children for a ride, hadie,
hadie hoe, the elephant is so slow,� i was riding on the back of the
poor old elephant at taronga park zoo as a child, she had been made into
a childless mother, her calves sold off to other zoos, as a girl i had
been taught to sing that song in school, but I didn�t want to ride her,
and was frightened as she paced her endless circle, the zoo worker
gathering children, and placing them into a brightly painted wooden
float behind her ears, she spent her long life dragging her chains, this
feeling of tremendous anguish consumed me, it was bigger than my life
had been, a lot of the kids were crying when the ride had finished, the
adults saying, �never mind, did she frighten you did she?,�