| Song | Talk to the Animals |
| Artist | Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass |
| Album | Beat of the Brass |
| If I could talk to the animals, just imagine it, | |
| Chattin' with a chimp in chimpanzee, | |
| Imagine talking to a tiger, chatting to a cheetah, | |
| What a neat achievement it would be! | |
| If I spoke slang to orangutans | |
| The advantages any fool on earth could plainly see! | |
| Discussing Eastern art and dramas | |
| With intellectual llamas | |
| That’s a big step forward you’ll agree! | |
| I’d learn to speak in antelope and turtle | |
| And my Pekinese would be extremely good | |
| If I were asked to sing in hippopotamus | |
| I’d say “whynotamous?” and I would! | |
| (Instrumental) | |
| I would converse in polar bear and python, | |
| And I would curse in fluent kangaroo, | |
| If people ask me "can you speak rhinoceros?" | |
| I'd say "of courserous! Can't you?" | |
| If I conferred with our furry friends, man to animal, | |
| Think of the amazing repartee | |
| If I could walk with the animals, talk with the animals, | |
| Grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals, | |
| And they could squeak and skwawk and speak and talk to us! |
| If I could talk to the animals, just imagine it, | |
| Chattin' with a chimp in chimpanzee, | |
| Imagine talking to a tiger, chatting to a cheetah, | |
| What a neat achievement it would be! | |
| If I spoke slang to orangutans | |
| The advantages any fool on earth could plainly see! | |
| Discussing Eastern art and dramas | |
| With intellectual llamas | |
| That' s a big step forward you' ll agree! | |
| I' d learn to speak in antelope and turtle | |
| And my Pekinese would be extremely good | |
| If I were asked to sing in hippopotamus | |
| I' d say " whynotamous?" and I would! | |
| Instrumental | |
| I would converse in polar bear and python, | |
| And I would curse in fluent kangaroo, | |
| If people ask me " can you speak rhinoceros?" | |
| I' d say " of courserous! Can' t you?" | |
| If I conferred with our furry friends, man to animal, | |
| Think of the amazing repartee | |
| If I could walk with the animals, talk with the animals, | |
| Grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals, | |
| And they could squeak and skwawk and speak and talk to us! |