290P: Elephant Pelephant poem book

I’m looking for a children’s poem book published probably in the 1950s (it was read to me in the late 1950s-early 1960s) that included a poem with the line, “Elephang, Pelephant, walla walla welephant,” or something like that.

5 thoughts on “290P: Elephant Pelephant poem book

    1. Gill

      It’s not from a poetry book, but:

      Jimmy Pimmy
      Is a Wimmy
      Elephant Pelephant
      Is a Welephant
      Cow Pow
      Is a vow

      p.49 ‘Moving into Skills of Communication,’ by ERIC

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  1. Susan Wagenhals

    Eletelephony

    Once there was an elephant,
    Who tried to use the telephant—
    No! no! I mean an elephone
    Who tried to use the telephone—
    (Dear me! I am not certain quite
    That even now I’ve got it right.)
    Howe’er it was, he got his trunk
    Entangled in the telephunk;
    The more he tried to get it free,
    The louder buzzed the telephee—
    (I fear I’d better drop the song
    Of elephop and telephong!)

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  2. Stacy

    Thanks for these replies (I made the inquiry), but the Laura Richards poem is not the one I was read as a child.

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