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Various Artists
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Schoolhouse Rock
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The Four-Legged Zoo
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Lyrics & Music by: Bob Dorough
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Performed by: Bob Dorough and chorus of kids
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(Drum riff)
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We went to the four-legged zoo
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To visit our four-footed friends.
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Lions and tigers, cats and dogs,
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A goat and a cow and a couple o' hogs.
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A rhinoceros and of course a hippopotamus
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And, oh yes, a horse!
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There were elk and bison, a gnu or two,
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Giraffes and elephants, quite a few,
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A llama, alpaca, vicuna too,
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Zebras, Ibexes, and one big kudu.
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It was swell.
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I liked the gazelle.
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Now Miss Simpson said ...
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She teaches school, you know-
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Yeah, she took us there.
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Well, Miss Simpson said-
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If we counted every head on these
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quadrupeds,
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Then multiplied that number by four,
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We'd know how many feet went through the
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door,
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If we turned 'em all loose.
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Oh no, don't do that!
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It's really a groovy zoo.
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But anyway, what Miss Simpson said,
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It was a good chance to work on our fours in
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our head.
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1-2-3-4!
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I'll take a lion ... 1 X 4
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He's got four legs and maybe a roar.
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Gimme 2 camels ... that's 2 x 4
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8 legs walking 'cross the desert floor.
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A tiger and a lamb and a fat kudu,
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Would be 3 x 4 equals 12 legs too.
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But we might have to subtract
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When that tiger was through! (Rrarr!)
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Four 4-footed friends, no matter who,
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Would have sixteen legs, and It's always true
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That 4 X 4 equals 16,
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And 5 x 4 is 20.
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Now a coach and six, If you were Cinderella,
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Would have you home by midnight
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If those twenty-four legs ran fast as light ...
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6 x 4 equals 24 and 7 x 4 equals 28
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Anyone knows that, who cares about seven
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...
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And eight antelope have thirty-two legs
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'cause 8 x 4 is 32.
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Here come a small herd of buffalo.
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They say they're getting extinct, you know.
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I can count nine-that's thirty-six legs.
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9 x 4 equals 36.
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Here comes a baby buffalo.
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That's good! That's ten!
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And 10 x 4, you know, is 40.
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Eleven coyotes ... 11 X4
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Went slinkin' over the prairie floor
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On all of their legs ... equals 44.
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Now 12 X 4 is as high as we go ...
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12 x 4 equals 48.
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But there were so very, very, many, many
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more
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Animals standing there by the gate,
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That we'd have to use a pencil if we counted
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them all.
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And we really had fun,
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And we saw every one.
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A bear, a cougar, a jackal, a yak,
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A fox, some deer, and a sweet giraffe.
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And I can't remember how many, many more,
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But we multiplied them all by four.
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And some of them thanked us with a roar.
Can you name all three cartoons? #loop #...
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