The Tragic Ballad of Gerard the Giraffe

So---I like to sing animal songs to Miriam while we play with her stuffed animals.  But I don't have a good giraffe song---so I thought I'd write my own.  Unfortunately, it came out rather disturbing.  This happens every time I try to write a children's poem.  Oh well---maybe Miriam will think it's funny when she's older.

Once, in a zoo
There lived a kangaroo
But he wasn't involved in this story
Nor was the turtle or calf
But rather, just one giraffe
Who dreamed of his own selfish glory.

Gerard the giraffe
Loved to laugh
At monkeys and zebras and lions
When they couldn't reach
A big tasty peach
Gerard snatched it without even tryin'.

The monkeys said: "boo"
And flung some of their poo
The zebras grew wild and crazed
The lions didn't much care
Meat was their preferred fare
And Gerard just munched on, unfazed.

"Don't blame me," he said
As he happily fed
"For the neck God gave me to wear.
It's glorious, yes?
You're just jealous, I guess.
Poor short necked creatures, there there."

Then out of nowhere
One brave monkey dared
To jump on a zebra's back.
The zebra reared
and the monkey appeared
To launch an aerial attack!!

"Arrg!" said Gerard
When the monkey hit hard
Right on the side of his hide
But when the monkey slid down
Helpless, to the ground
Gerard just laughed till he cried.

"You're a monkey, you claim?
But you're a bird brain!"
Said Gerard in an arrogant fashion.
"What a hare brained scheme
Who'd ever have dreamed
Of a monkey with such ill advised passion?"

As Gerard grew ever meaner
Ears around him grew keener
And the birds' and hares' voices  united
"As if we lack good sense!
Why, what an offense!"
"We'll show you who's dumb," they decided.

All it took was one wren
To pick the lock with a pin
And one strong hare to push open the door
And that which protected
Gerard from being digested
Suddenly was no more.

With the gate flung wide
The lions crept inside
To attend to a quite pressing matter
They licked their jaws and swiped their paws
And thought how they wished they were fatter....

Once upon a time
A giraffe in his prime
Was unfortunately devoured
And the peach of his bragging
And rather rude nagging?
The lions all found it quite sour.