Lyrics & Music by: Bob Dorough
Performed by: Bob Dorough and chorus of kids
(Drum riff)
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 o' hogs
A rhinoceros and of course a hippopotamus
And, oh yes, a horse!
There were elk and 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 Miss Simpson said
She teaches school, you know-
Yeah, she took us there
Well, Miss Simpson said-
If we counted every head on these
quadrupeds,
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 really a groovy zoo
But anyway, what Miss Simpson said,
It was a good chance to work on our fours in
our head
1-2-3-4!
I'll take a lion 1 X 4
He's got four legs and maybe a roar
Gimme 2 camels that's 2 x 4
8 legs walking 'cross the desert floor
A tiger and a lamb and a fat kudu,
Would be 3 x 4 equals 12 legs too
But we might have to subtract
When that tiger was through! (Rrarr!)
Four 4-footed friends, no matter who,
Would have sixteen legs, and It's always true
That 4 X 4 equals 16,
And 5 x 4 is 20
Now a coach and six, If you were Cinderella,
Would have you home by midnight
If those twenty-four legs ran fast as light
6 x 4 equals 24 and 7 x 4 equals 28
Anyone knows that, who cares about seven

And eight antelope have thirty-two legs
'cause 8 x 4 is 32
Here come a small herd of buffalo
They say they're getting extinct, you know
I can count nine-that's thirty-six legs
9 x 4 equals 36
Here comes a baby buffalo
That's good! That's ten!
And 10 x 4, you know, is 40
Eleven coyotes 11 X4
Went slinkin' over the prairie floor
On all of their legs equals 44
Now 12 X 4 is as high as we go
12 x 4 equals 48
But there were so very, very, many, many
more
Animals standing there by the gate,
That 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
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