I've been playing the uke for over 40 years, and one of my favorite things has always been trying to see how much '70s progressive rock I could learn to play on the uke. I've been able to play this for a while, but avoided the song because it's impossible to sing in the original register. I lowered the verses by an octave here.
This is a Genesis song called "Squonk". It's about a creature that constantly weeps in shame because of its extreme ugliness. When captured, it cries until it dissolves into a puddle of tears. Crypto-zoology is one of the possible song topics for this week's Seasons of the Ukulele, so I figured I'd give it a shot.
From Wikipedia, I learned this week that Genesis hadn't made up the squonk. It's a folklore creature that was said to inhabit the hemlock forests of northern Pennsylvania, and was first written about in the 1910 book "Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods." The earlier write-up was reprinted in Jorge Luis Borges' 1969 "Book of Imaginary Beings", where rockers apparently learned about it. Steely Dan sang about the squonk before Genesis. A lyric I'd never quite been able to make out in "Any Major Dude Will Tell You" was "Have you ever seen a squonk's tears? Well, look at mine."