"The Elephant Ride" is a song by the British new wave band Squeeze.
It was written by Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, and it appeared on their 1982 album Sweets from a Stranger.
I'd been listening to Pet Sounds an awful lot at the time and this was one of the songs where rather than oppose the mood of the lyric, I tried to reflect it.
It was a story I came up with about a skinhead who had fallen in love with an Indian girl in Charlton.
"[1] AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine said in his review of Sweets from a Stranger that "The Elephant Ride" was "shimmering" and "gorgeous.