(as sung by the troubador Zingaro)
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It was nine o'clock at midnight, at a quarter after three.
When a turtle met a bagpipe on the shoreline by the sea.
And the turtle said 'My dearie, may I sit with you? I'm weary.'
And the bagpipe, she didn't say no.
Said the turtle to the bagpipe, 'I've walked this lonely shore,
'I have talked to waves and pebbles - but I've never loved before.'
'Will you marry me today, dear? Is it no you're going to say dear?'
But the bagpipe didn't say no.
Said the turtle to his darling, 'Please excuse me if I stare-'
'But you have the plaidest skin dear, and you have the strangest hair.
'If I begged you pretty please, love, could I give you just one squeeze, love?'"And the bagpipe didn't say no.
Said the turtle to the bagpipe, 'Ah, you love me! Then confess!
'Let me whisper in yourdainty ear, and hold you to my chest!'
And he cuddled her and teased her, and so lovingly he squeezed her,
And the bagpipe said , 'Aooga.'
Said the turtle to the bagpipe, 'Did you honk or bray or neigh?
'For Aooga when you're kissed is such a heartless thing to say.
'Is it that I have offended? Is it that our love has ended?'
And the bagpipe... didn't say no.
Said the turtle to the bagpipe, 'Shall I leave you darling wife?
'Shall I waddle off to Woedom? Shall I crawl out of your life?
'Shall I move, depart and go, dear? Oh I beg you - tell me No dear!
But the bagpipe didn't say no.
And some night when tide is low there, Just walk up and say Hello there. And politely ask if the story's really so. I assure dearest friendlies, that the bagpipe won't say 'no'.