david was a young blood david was a stripling but he looked like the jungle boy that was talked about by kipling well he looked like a jungle boy and he sang like a bird when david was attending sheep for his pa somebody hollered i think it was his ma she said hurry to the field with this little bitty sack i want you to take it to your brothers but hurry right back now david took his lunch box and off he hurried and there he saw the israelites lookin right worried when he asked them what the problem was they pointed to the prairie there he saw a sight to make an elephant scary oh there he saw goliath champion of gath he roared in his anger howled in his wrath oh he was stronger than a lion he was taller than a tree little david had to tiptoe just to reach up to his knee come on said the giant raging and striding bring out your strongmen from where y got em hiding drag out your champions from under the bunks i ll feed em to the buzzards the lizards and the skunks now david heard him bragging and said i declare that giant s got an awful lot of mouth up there so he strolled to the brook and he picked up a pebble it was smooth as ice but hard as a devil he starts out for the giant dancing on his toes he was whirling away with his slingshot he was singing a song like so goes rock of ages cleft for me like so the giant looks at david and lets out a laugh he laughs like a tiger being sassed by a cat he laughs like a hyena grins from ear to ear ba ba ba bangin on his armor with his ten foot spear he stars out for david bangin and a clankin he said come here junior i m gonna give you a spankin david took his slingshot and swung it round his head out flew that pebble and the giant dropped dead 