If I could talk to the animals, just imagine it   Chattin' 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   I could 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 course, 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 [unverified] 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 'em 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