The Four Legged Zoo

We went to the four-legged zoo To visit our four-footed friends Lions and tigers, cats and dogs A goat, and a cow, and a couple of hogs A rhinoceros, and of course, a hippopotamus And oh yes, a horse An elk and a bison, a gnu or two Giraffes and elephants, quite a few A llama, alpaca, vicuna too Zebras, ibexes, and one big kudu It was swell I liked the gazelle Now Ms. Simpson said She teaches school, you know Yeah, she took us there Well, Ms. Simpson said "If you counted every head on these quadrupeds Then multiplied that number by four We'd know how many feet went through the door if we turn 'em all loose" Well, don't do that! It's really a groovy zoo But anyway, what Ms. Simpson said It was a good chance to work on fours in our head One, two, three, four! I'll take a lion (one times four) He's got four legs and maybe a roar Gimme two camels, that's two times four Eight legs walking across the desert floor A tiger and a llama and a fat kudu Would be three times four, equals twelve legs, too But we might have to subtract when that tiger was through Four four-footed friends, no matter who Would have sixteen legs, and it's always true That four times four equals sixteen And five times four is twenty Now, a coach and six, if you were Cinderella Would have you home by midnight If those 24 legs ran fast as light Six times four equals 24 And seven times four equals 28 Anyone knows that, who cares about seven And eight antelope have 32 legs 'Cause eight times four is 32 Here come a small herd of buffalo They say they're gettin' extinct, you know I can count nine, that's 36 legs Nine times four equals 36 Here comes a baby buffalo That's good, that's ten And ten times four, you know, is 40 Eleven coyotes (eleven times four) Went sneakin' over the prairie floor On all of their legs (equals 44) Now twelve times four is as high as we go Twelve times four equals 48 But there were so very very, many many more Animals standing there by the gate That you'd have to use a pencil if you counted them all And we really had fun and saw everyone A bear! A cougar! A jackal! A yak! A fox! Some deer, a sweet giraffe And I can't remember how many, many more But we multiplied them all by four And some of them thanked us with a roar