Talk to the Animals-The Tinseltown Players

[ti:Talk to the Animals] [ar:Studio Group] [al:Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song: 50 Songs and Stories for Children] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talk to the Animals - The Tinseltown Players [00:08.05]If I could talk to the animals just imagine it [00:11.91] [00:12.45]Chattin' with a chimp in chimpanzee [00:14.43] [00:15.28]Imagine talking to a tiger chatting with a cheetah [00:18.84] [00:19.56]What a neat achievement it would be [00:21.42] [00:22.70]If we could talk to the animals learn all their languages [00:26.17] [00:27.10]I could take an animal degree [00:28.62] [00:29.35]I'd study elephant and eagle buffalo and beagle [00:32.56] [00:33.27]Alligator guinea pig and flea [00:35.26] [00:36.13]I would converse in polar bear and python [00:38.61] [00:39.49]And I would curse in fluent kangaroo [00:41.61] [00:42.73]If people ask me "can you speak rhinocerous " [00:45.28] [00:46.08]I'd say "of courserous Can't you " [00:48.42] [00:56.74]If I conferred with our furry friends man to animal [01:00.38] [01:00.89]Think of the amazing repartee [01:02.61] [01:03.56]If I could walk with the animals talk with the animals [01:07.20]Grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals [01:10.17] [01:12.01]And they could talk to me [01:14.87] [01:17.82]If I consulted with quadrupeds [01:19.76] [01:20.81]Think what fun we'd have asking over crocodiles for tea [01:23.92] [01:24.87]Or maybe lunch with two or three lions walruses and sea lions [01:28.87] [01:29.62]What a lovely place the world would be [01:31.84] [01:49.68]If I spoke slang to orangutans [01:51.77] [01:52.48]The advantages why any fool on earth could plainly see [01:55.91] [01:56.76]Discussing Eastern art and dramas [01:58.99]With intellectual llamas [02:00.57]That's a big step forward you'll agree [02:02.67] [02:03.86]I'd learn to speak in antelope and turtle [02:06.29] [02:07.37]And my Pekinese would be extremely good [02:09.78] [02:10.67]If I were asked to sing in hippopotamus [02:13.41] [02:14.18]I'd say “whynotamous ” and I would [02:16.85] [02:17.64]If I could parlay with pachyderms [02:19.57] [02:20.22]It's a fairy tale worthy of Hans Anderson and Grimm [02:23.54] [02:24.58]A man who walks with the animals and talks with the animals [02:28.64]Grunt squeak squawk with the animals [02:31.14] [02:32.06]Poliniture just think of it [02:34.50]And they could talk to me