The Gingerbread Girl

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Now everybody knows about the gingerbread man
The silly cookie saying: I can run, I can!
Well the sly fox ate him, probably just as well
But here's another version of the story we can tell
We're taking an old fairy tale, give it a new whirl
And now we've got the story of the
Gingerbread Girl
But one more thing, we're changing the location
A whole other continent, a whole other nation
Makes you stop and think, it makes you kind of wonder
What would happen to a Gingerbread Girl down under?
Here's a story that will never fail ya
We're baking a girl of gingerbread and taking her to
Australia

Flight attendants, please prepare for takeoff
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Well it took some time to get here but it didn't really daunt us
We all arrived in style 'cuz we all flew on Qantas
The box was opened by people there in Customs
Looking for a cookie-smuggling ring so they could bust'em
But they were surprised because what they found instead
Was a cookie made of gingerbread who stood right up and said
Run, run, run, all around the world
You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Girl!

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She ran right out the airport, out into the bush
She was really flying. No, she didn't need a push
She ran so fast that we couldn't even follow
But the first one she met was a hungry Koala, who said
Stop! Stop! I want to eat you!
She said: Goodbye, it was really nice to meet you
I've got a lot of things to see and a lot of things to do
I ran here from the airport and I can run away from you
So run, run, run all around the world
You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Girl!

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She met a pack of wild dogs, the name wasn't Bingo
Down under in Australia they are known as Dingo
They said: Stop! Stop! We want to eat you!
She said: Goodbye, it was really nice to meet you
I ran here from an airport and an old koala too
And, doggies, let me tell you I can run away from you
So run, run, run all around the world
You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Girl!

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She ran to the shade of a coolibah tree
And there she saw a kookaburra laughing with glee
He said: Stop! Stop! I want to eat you!
She said: Goodbye, it was really nice to meet you
I ran from a koala and a pack of dingos too
And, birdie, let me tell you I can run away from you
So run, run, run all around the world
You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Girl!

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She ran so fast that she almost flew
And the next one she met was a momma kangaroo
Now a kangaroo can jump and go like a rocket
That's with her baby joey sitting in her pocket
They said: Stop! Stop! We want to eat you!
She said: Goodbye, it was really nice to meet you
I ran from a koala and a pack of dingos too
I ran from a kookaburra and I can run away from you
So run, run, run all around the world
You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Girl!

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She ran till she came to the edge of a billabong
Decided to take a rest cuz everything was chillin'
Along came a platypus swimming kind of slow
Platypus said: g'day, mate!
She just said: oh, no
Now platypus does look a little different
But she just didn't like the look of him
He had a tail like a beaver and a bill like a duck
She just stood and looked at him and said
What rotten luck!
This animal is funny-lookin', flat-tailed, and furry!
And then she saw the others coming and knew she had to hurry
Platypus said: step on my tail! I'll help you get across!
She did and she said: Well move it, buster! I'm the boss!
Well now an attitude like that could make anybody cross
So he flicked his tail and gave that cookie a toss
She went up and came down and landed right in his mouth
And that was it for the Gingerbread Girl down South
Down under in Australia where the wallabies woo
My story of the Gingerbread Girl is through
And if you ever come to visit, be sure to say g'day!
And if you're made of gingerbread then you might even say
Run, run, run, all around the world!
You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Girl!

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Now the moral of the story isn't very hard to guess
It really doesn't matter how you look or how you dress
And even if you think you're made of sugar and spice
No matter who you're talking to, remember to be
Nice

Run, run, run, all around the world
You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Girl!

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