Avoid a Piranha

Tune: Irving Berlin's "I Love a Piano"

Avoid a piranha!
Avoid a piranha—
The little pest that plows through chum.
Avoid a piranha,
Because piranha
Are apt to bite off half your thumb.

"Sidestep those jawbones!"
So says your sawbones;
She doesn't want to have to operate,
Or amputate—

And who can blame her?
A lion-tamer
Who sticks his head in Leo's maw
Is hardly dimmer
Than any swimmer
Who ups and lets caribes gnaw.

So take a tip from me, and keep away
From all the P-I-R-A-N-H-A!

If one should greet you, then I entreat you—
Do not try to shake its hand!