Pelican & Penguin Lyrics - Nits Bis

(Hofstede/Kloet/Stips - Hofstede) 

My aunt is living in the country in a house by the water 

That's the place where I learned to swim 

When the uncle was still living he kept his prize winning chickens 

That looked like waiters in black & white 

I was sleeping in the attic between the preservation bottles 

And my cousin with peroxidized hair 

The boys next door were standing on a tyre of an aeroplane 

In the middle of the river in their Sunday suits 

Pelican & Penguin you are wakening me up 

My uncle he was reading lots of pocket books 

He had one shelf for Penguin and one shelf for Pelican 

When he was dead and buried my aunt gave me the books 

She didn't care too much for reading 

And nowadays when I travel I always take one of each 

I look at the back and make my choice