The Reluctant Dragon (song)

The Reluctant Dragon is a song featured briefly in the film The Reluctant Dragon written by Charles Wolcott, T. Hee and Erdman Penner. It is sung by the dragon (Barrett Parker).
A complete version of the song was later recorded by The King's Men and later by Thurl Ravenscroft for the LP record Walt Disney Presents All About Dragons.
==Lyrics==
One fine day while on me way to Ipswitch by the sea
I met a rather charming chap who asked me into tea
It seemed he was a dragon you know the kind with wings
Teeth and tails and claws and scales and all those dragon-like details
I admit I jumped a bit when he began to sing
Oh I'm the reluctant dragon, what ho quite so
The very reluctant dragon, oh veddy veddy don't you know
They call me the timid dragon what rot I'm not
I just won't fight I'd rather play
I know I shan't get hurt that way
Here we go gathering nuts in May
Whoops! I'm reluctant.
After we had sipped our tea a thought popped in me head
A dragon here by jove that's queer he really should be dead
I said, I say, look here I said, aren't you a bit extinct?
Then the blighter gave a cry, and heaved his bosom with a sigh
wiped a tear drop from his eye then flushed and coyly winked
Then he told of knights of old, it seems they were the bunk
they barged about in suits of tin and other sundry junk
The maidens there with flaxen hair littered up the place
Then they asked him into tea which happened jolly frequently
He would sigh reproachfully and put them in their place
Oh I'm the reluctant dragon, what ho quite so
the very reluctant dragon, oh veddy veddy don't you know
They call me the timid dragon, what rot, I'm not
When other fight I run away
Its just because I'm built that way
For I'm to be queen of May today
Whoops! I'm reluctant.
Night wore on we talked till dawn of many many things
of fishing trips and cricket fence and kidney pies and kings
At break of Day I slipped away for Ipswitch by the sea
And no matter where I am in Picadilly or Siam
When I have my tea and jam this song comes back to me.
Oh I'm the reluctant dragon, what ho quite so
the very reluctant dragon, oh veddy veddy don't you know
They call me the timid dragon, what rot, I'm not
I'm much to shy to bill and coo so you chase me and I'll chase you
Roses are red and violets and blue, whoops! I'm reluctant.
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