| 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 rhinocerous?» | 
| 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 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 Pekinese would be extremely good | 
| If I were asked to sing in hippopotamus | 
| I’d say «whynotamous» 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» 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! |