"Please Don't Call Me A Koala Bear" lyrics

I'm a koala, not a bear
And I don't think it's fair
The way that people always add a word that isn't there
I'm a marsupial and proud of it
And there can be no doubt of it
I'm closer to a kangaroo than I am to a bear

So please, don't call me a koala bear
'Cause I'm not a bear at all
Please, don't call me a koala bear
It's driving me up the wall

If your name was Tom (Tom!)
And everyone called you Dick (Dick!)
Perhaps you'd understand why I'm sick, sick, sick
I'm simply a koala and I want the name to stick
So please, don't call me a koala bear

I live here in Australia in a eucalyptus tree
I'm as cuddly, cute and charming as an animal can be
I don't understand, fair dinkum
How anyone could think them
Grizzly bears and polar bears are anything like me

So please, don't call me a koala bear
'Cause I'm not a bear at all
Please, don't call me a koala bear
It's driving me up the wall

If your name was Tom (Tom!)
And everyone called you Nick (Nick!)
Perhaps you'd understand why I'm sick, sick, sick
I'm simply a koala and I want the name to stick
So please, don't call me a koala bear

So please, don't call me a koala bear
'Cause I'm not a bear at all
Please, don't call me a koala bear
It's driving me up the wall

If your name was Tom (Tom!)
And everyone called you Rick (Rick!)
Perhaps you'd understand why I'm sick, sick, sick
I'm simply a koala and I want the name to stick
So please, don't call me a koala bear

Just call me a koala
I couldn't bear anything else