The Four-Legged Zoo

The Four-Legged Zoo
General information
Feature films	Multiplication Rock
Shows	Schoolhouse Rock!
Composer	Bob Dorough
Lyrics	Bob Dorough
Performers	Bob Dorough (and chorus of children)
Video

"The Four-Legged Zoo" is a song in Schoolhouse Rock!, which can be seen in Multiplication Rock. The song teaches us how to multiply by four.

Lyrics

All: We went to the four-legged zoo
To visit our four-footed friends
Kids: Lions and tigers, cats and dogs
A goat and a cow and a couple of hogs
Bob Dorough: A rhinoceros and of course a hippopotamus
And, oh yes, a horse

Kids: There were elk and bison, a gnu or two
Giraffes and elephants, quite a few
Bob: A llama, alpaca, vicuna too
Zebras, ibexes, and one big kudu
It was swell.
Kid: I liked the gazelle.

Kids: 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. One, two, three, four!

Bob: I'll take a lion (Kids: 1 X 4)
He's got four legs and maybe a roar
Kids: Gimme two camels (That's 2 X 4)
Eight legs walking 'cross the desert floor

Bob: A tiger and a lamb and a fat kudu
All: Would be 3 X 4 = 12 legs too
Bob: But we might have to subtract when that tiger was through (Rowwwr!)

Four four-footed friends, no matter who
Would have 16 legs, and it's always true
All: That's 4 X 4 is 16
5 X 4 is 20

Bob: Now a coach and six, if you were Cinderella
Would have you home by midnight
If those 24 legs ran fast as light
Kids: 6 X 4 is 24
7 X 4 is 28
Bob: Anyone knows that who cares about seven

All: And 8 antelope have 32 legs 'cause 8 X 4 is 32

Bob: Here comes a small herd of buffalo
They say they're getting extinct, you know
Kids: I count nine - that's 36 legs
9 X 4 is 36
Here comes a baby buffalo
Bob: That's good! That's ten!
And 10 X 4, you know, is 40

Eleven coyotes (Kids: 11 X 4)
Went slinkin' over the prairie floor
On all of their legs (Kids: = 44)

Now 12 X 4 is as high as we go
Kids: 12 X 4 = 48
Bob: But there were so very, very, many, many more
Animals standing there by the gate

All: That we'd have to use a pencil if we counted them all
And we really had fun, and we saw every one
Kids: A bear!
A cougar!
A jackal!
A yak!
A fox!
Some deer and a sweet giraffe

Bob: I can't remember how many, many more
All: But we multiplied them all by four
And some of them thanked us with a roar

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Media Schoolhouse Rock! • Schoolhouse Rock Live! • Schoolhouse Rock! 50th Anniversary Singalong Songs Schoolhouse Rocky Multiplication: My Hero, Zero • Elementary, My Dear • Three is a Magic Number • The Four-Legged Zoo • Ready or Not, Here I Come • I Got Six • Lucky Seven Sampson • Figure Eight • Naughty Number Nine • The Good Eleven • Little Twelvetoes Grammar: Unpack Your Adjectives • Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here • Conjunction Junction • Interjections! • Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla • Verb: That's What's Happening • A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing • Busy Prepositions • The Tale of Mr. Morton America: No More Kings • Fireworks • The Shot Heard 'Round the World • The Preamble • Elbow Room • The Great American Melting Pot • Mother Necessity • Sufferin' Till Suffrage • I'm Just a Bill • Three Ring Government • I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College • Presidential Minute Science: The Body Machine • Do the Circulation • Electricity, Electricity • The Energy Blues • Interplanet Janet • Telegraph Line • Them Not-So-Dry Bones • A Victim of Gravity • The Weather Show Money: Dollars and Sense • $7.50 Once a Week • Where the Money Goes • Tax Man Max • Walkin' on Wall Street • This for That • Tyrannosaurus Debt • The Check's in the Mail Earth: Report from the North Pole • The Little Things We Do • The Trash Can Band • You Oughta Be Saving Water • The Rainforest • Save the Ocean • Fat Cat Blue: The Clean Rivers Song • A Tiny Urban Zoo • Solar Power to the People • Windy and the Windmills • Don't Be a Carbon Sasquatch • The Three R's Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips Theme • Hardware • Software • Number Cruncher Characters Schoolhouse Rocky • Bill