The final dodo walked the earth four hundred years ago
No more flapping wings and croaking, the dodo, yes, has croaked
He lies extinct, no being vicious in Mauritius
At least that's what I thinkt

Then Salvador Dali died in 1989
With the oddest of moustaches
Like his anti-artist predecessor, Dada
Painting stuff, did he look back and then realize he'd painted quite enough
And practic'ly all that he did was guff?

Dada died, Dali died, da dodo died
Dada died, Dali died, da dodo died
D'oh, da dodo died

In an underpass in Paris, being driven by a drunk, Lady Di and Dodi Fayed
Met their end by going crash into a pillar
Now dead and gone - but the only person to survive:
He had his seatbelt on

The presenter Jill Dando, she was stalked and shot and killed
By an unhinged sort of stalker doing it for thrills, that's not unusual
No it isn't strange, with care in the community, she's still dead just the same
When we're dead, we're all more or less the same

Dada died, Dali died, da dodo died
Dando died, Dodi died with Di he died
Ditto dada died

And I'm looking at the Dandy, but I guess that doesn't count: it's a comic
And Dan Dare is just a cartoon so why should I care? But who's still there, on her own:

I tell ya - were I Dido, I'd be quaking in my boots
'case some maniac comes shooting, or a car runs into concrete at a hundred
Or she dies out from hunger (or maybe just old age)
In the doo-doo, like the dodo but still Dido is alive
Yes, she survives...

Dada died, Dali died, da dodo died
Dando died, Dodi died with Di he died
Dido's alive...