Talk to the Animals

If I could talk to the animals, just imagine it,

Chattin' with a chimp in chimpanzee,

Imagine talking to a tiger, chatting to a cheetah,

What a neat achievement it would be!

If I spoke slang to orangutans

The advantages any fool on earth could plainly see!

Discussing Eastern art and dramas

With intellectual llamas

That’s a big step forward you’ll agree!

I’d learn to speak in antelope and turtle

And my Pekinese would be extremely good

If I were asked to sing in hippopotamus

I’d say “whynotamous?” and I would!

(Instrumental)

I would converse in polar bear and python,

And I would curse in fluent kangaroo,

If people ask me "can you speak rhinoceros?"

I'd say "of courserous! Can't you?"

If I conferred with our furry friends, man to animal,

Think of the amazing repartee

If I could walk with the animals, talk with the animals,

Grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals,

And they could squeak and skwawk and speak and talk to us!