*** MULTIPLICATION ROCK *** (1973)

The Four-Legged Zoo

Key to symbols within the lyrics

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 and a gnu or two,

>> Giraffes and elephants, quite a few.

A llama, alpaca, bicuna too,

Zebras, xebexes, and one big kudu.

It was swell! >> <I liked the gazelles!>

>> <Now Miss Simpson said...>

>> <She teaches school, you know.>

>> <Yeah, she took us there!>

>> <Well Miss Simpson said...>

>> <If you counted every head on these quadripeds,

>> then multiplied that number by four,

>> We'd know how many feet went through the door

>> If we turned 'em all loose!>

>> <Oh no, don't do that!>

>> <It's a really groovy zoo.>

>> <But, anyway, what Miss Simpson said,

>> It was a good chance to work with our 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 'cross the desert floor.

A tiger and a lamb and a fat kudu

We got three times four >> Equals 12 %legs too%

But then I had to subtract when that tiger was through... Rowwwr!

Four four-footed friends, no matter who

Would have 16 legs, And it's always true...

>> That four times four equals 16.

>> Five times four is 20.

<Now a coach and six, if you were Cinderella, would have you home

by midnight, if those 24 legs ran fast as lightning...>

>> Six times four equals 24...

>> Seven times four equals 28...

Anyone knows that, who cares about seven.

And 8 antelope have 32 legs 'cause eight times four is 32.

Here come a small herd of buffalo,

They say they're gettin' extinct, y'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, y'know, is 40....

Eleven coyotes >> Eleven times four,

Went slinking 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.

But we'd have to use a pencil if we counted them all

And we really had fun, and we saw every one:

>> A bear, a cougar, a jackal, a yak,

>> A fox, some deer, and a sweet giraffe

But I can't remember how many, many more,

But we multiplied them all by four.

And some of them thanked us with a roar.

Great thanks to:

David Strauss / dss2k@virginia.edu (PsiCop P12+ & B5 Waiter, Fresh Air)
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