Schoolhouse Rock - Multiplication Rock

The Four-Legged Zoo

Music & Lyrics: Bob Dorough
Sung by: Bob Dorough
Animation: Paul Kimmelman and Associates

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, vicuna 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.