This song about the animal cousin of llamas and camels was written for the Detroit Zoo. It gets a Latin/Andean treatment, with panpipes, nylon string guitar and Latin percussion.
Oh, Guanaco
Credit: (David Heitler-Klevans, with Jenny, © 2007, ASCAP)
Album: We're All In This Together
Lyrics:
(Chorus:)
Oh, guanaco
– mountain-climbing wild llama
Oh, guanaco
- the camel of South America
High in the
Andean mountains
striding
through plains and plateaus
and I’m
told, they may go, to Tierra del Fuego
sure-footed
with just two toes -
(Chorus)
You may know
alpacas and llamas
As tame as
guanacos are wild
Like their
cousins, the camels, they’re fast-running mammals,
who can go
without water for miles
(Chorus)
Don’t sneak
up on a guanaco
It’s not
something I’d recommend
Intruders
get hit with a mouthful of spit
With the
food that they’ve chewed, they’ll defend
(Chorus)