Ferlin Husky Eli The Camel Lyrics

Eli The Camel Lyrics

ELI, THE CAMEL

  

      

  Now, there's an old brown camel on a cigarette pack

  He's a-waiting for his master but he ain't come back

  Been standin' there for years in the same old place

  With the same old look upon his old long face



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  Eli, the camel, he never gets a drink

  I wonder what old Eli thinks

  Standing on the front of that cigarette pack

  Eli, the camel with the hump upon his back



  Now, I have often wondered what his master did

  When he went behind that big pyramid

  Some say he got a sunstroke and the old man died

  But, I think he's at the hotel on the other side



  He probably found a harem and he moved on in

  Forgot all about his faithful friend

  Standing on the front of that cigarette pack

  Eli, the camel with the hump upon his back



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  He never gets no loving and he don't have any fun

  He keeps right on a-standing in the burning sun

  Standing all the time on that cigarette pack

  Eli, the camel with the hump upon his back



  If old Eli could talk, well, I'll bet my boots to you

  He could tell the world a thing or two

  He's been all around the world and back

  Riding on the front of that cigarette pack



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