Talk To The Animals - From The 20th Century Fox Motion Picture "Doctor Dolittle"

If we could talk to the animals

Just imagine it

Chattin' to a chimp in chimpanzee

Imagine talkin' to a tiger

Chattin' to a cheetah

What a neat achievement it would be

If we could talk to the animals

Learn their languages

Maybe take an animal degree

We'd study elephants and eagles

Buffalo and beagle

Alligator, guinea pig, and flea

We would converse in polar bear and python

And we would curse in fluent, uh, kangaroo

If people asked us

"Can you speak rhinoceros?"

Yeah, we'd say, "Of course-a-mus! Can't you, you?"

If we conferred with our furry friends

Man to animal

Think of all the things we could discuss

If we could walk with the animals

Talk with the animals

Grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals

And they could talk to us

If we consulted with quadrupeds

(If it ever happened)

Think what fun we'd have

Asking crocodiles for tea

(Crocodiles, I'm scared of it, I'm scared of them)

Maybe lunch with two or three lions

Walrus, hares and sea lions

What a lovely place the world would be

(I don't know about that, heh heh)

If we spoke slang to orangutans

(Ooh, 'rangutans)

The advantages

Any fool on earth can plainly see

(Well, it'd take a fool to see it, that's, that's the-)

Discussing Eastern Arctic dramas

With intellectual llamas

That's a big step forward, you'll agree

We'd learn to speak in antelope and turtle

Our Pekinese would be extremely good

If we were asked to sing in hippopotamus

Yeah, we'd say "Nautimus and one"

And we are sure every octopus

Bass and platypus

Certainly would see it as a plus

If we could walk with the animals

Talk with the animals

Grunt and squeak and squawk, eh, with the animals

And they could talk to us, yeah