The Small Chameleon Has the Knack
The small chameleon has the knack Of turning blue or green or black, And yet, whatever hue he don, He stays a small cham-e-le-on.
Samuel Hoffenstein
The small chameleon has the knack Of turning blue or green or black, And yet, whatever hue he don, He stays a small cham-e-le-on.
A chameleon can shift from blue to green to black, and that sounds impressive at first. But the joke lands in the second couplet: no matter what color he takes on, he is still just a small chameleon. The drawn-out “cham-e-le-on” gives the ending a gentle, amused shrug.
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