If I could talk to the animals
Just imagine it
Chatting with a chimp in chimpanzee
Imagine talking to a tiger
Chatting with a cheetah
What a neat achievement it would be
If we could talk to the animals
Learn all their languages
Maybe take an animal degree
I'd study elephant and eagle
Buffalo and beagle
Alligator, guinea pig and flea
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 courseros
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 talk to me
If I consulted with quadrupeds
Think what fun we'd have
Asking over crocodiles for tea
Or maybe lunch with two or three lions
Walruses and sea lions
What a lovely place the world would be
If I spoke slang to orangutans
The advantages
Why 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 Pekingese
Would be extremely good
If I were asked
To sing in hippopotamus
I'd say, "Why not-a-mus
And I would"
If I could parlay with pachyderms
It's a fairy tale
Worthy of Hans Anderson and Grimm
A man who walks with the animals
And talks with the animals
Grunts and squeaks
And squawks with the animals
And they could talk to him
Let me hear them talk
I'd study every creature's language
So I could speak
To all of them on site
If friends said
Can he talk in crab or maybe pelican?
You'd say, "I canny can't
And you'd be right"
And if you just stop and think of it
Ain't no doubt of it
I'm gonna win a place in history
If I could walk with the animals
Talk with the animals
Grunt, squeak
Squawk with the animals
And they could squeak and squawk
And speak and talk to me