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! >>
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>> > then multiplied that number by four,
>> We’d know how many feet went through the door
>> If we turned ’em all loose!>
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>> > 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.
>> 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.
