At work one day a guy wrote in looking for Clearance
I was answering his email but I misspelled the word Clearance
I put down Clarence instead
Then I twigged it
"Wait a minute, that's not Clearance that's... that's Clarence"
And then I remembered...remembered back
Clarence, Clarence was the cross eyed lion in Daktari
The children's TV series we used to watch in the sixties
About an animal hospital in Africa
There was Clarence and there was a monkey, yea! a mischievous little chimpanzee monkey
She was always getting into trouble
Judy yea!, Judy was the monkey's name
The animal hospital was run by a Doctor Tracy and he had a lovely...pretty daughter named Paula ...yea! Paula...
Now I work with a girl named Paula, she's around the same age as me, another child of the sixties
I thought y'know I bet that's where Paula got her name from
Her parents were watching Daktari and said "That Paula's a lovely girl and what a pretty name
Why don't we call our baby Paula"
Then I thought 'She's lucky they didn't call her Judy after the monkey".