I'm a lucky lizard
and now I'll tell you why
one day as I hurried across the roof
a feather duster hit me in the eye

Now that's not very lucky
but there's worse to come, you'll see
I lost my grip upon the roof
and fell into a cup of tea

Here I had a bit of luck
the tea had gone quite cold
and the cleaner who had knocked me down
wasn't very bold

She picked me up inside the cup
and on the saucer too
and bravely took me out the room
and flushed me down the loo

Now swimming's not my strongest point
but I managed to survive
and found myself in a dark, damp drain
lucky to be alive

Eventually I got out the drain
and dried off in the sun
and as I basked on a nice warm brick
I thought my time had come

I suddenly saw a great big cat
but worse, the cat saw me
now cats don't much like lizards
except sometimes for tea

I'd had enough tea for one day
so I searched for an easy way out
and I needed to find one quickly
of that I had no doubt

I did the first thing on my mind
I ran as fast as I could go
but my little legs aren't very long
and cats, well they're not slow

So the cat was soon in front of me
but I knew a little trick
and though I'd never used it before
I had to do something, and quick

Us lizards, you know, are quite unique
we have a way of splitting in two
and at times like this when we're panicking
it's a clever thing to do

The idea is, we shed our tail
and run the other way
and the cat gets confused and chases the tail
and we live another day

So I shed my tail and ran like the devil
while my tail just stayed there and wriggled
but the cat must have seen this trick before
because I think I heard him giggle

Now the cat was no longer on my tail
which was a pity really, you see
'cause as you know, since my trick
my tail was no longer on me

I ran into a huge hole in the wall
inside it was musty and dark
but here I really had some luck
as the cat came I heard a loud bark

We had run into Satan's kennel
and I sat and watched with delight
as the hunter became the hunted
and turned and ran in fright