All God's Creatures
(source: "Celebrate With Song", Girl Guides of Canada, 1995.)

Chorus:

All God's creatures got a place in the choir

Some sing low and some sing higher

Some sing out loud on the telephone wire

Some just clap their hands or paws or anything they've got now...

Listen to the bass; he's the one on the bottom

Where the bullfrog croaks and the hippopotamus

Moans and groans with a big to do

And the old cow just goes moo.

Dogs and cats they take up the middle

Where the honey bee hums and the cricket fiddles

Where the donkey brays and the pony neighs

And the old grey badger sighs.

Listen to the ducks and the little birds singing

On the melody with the high notes ringing

The hoot owl cries over everything

And the jay bird disagrees.

Singing in the night-time, singing in the day

The little duck quacks and he's on his way

The otter hasn't got that much to say

And the porcupine talks to himself.

It's a simple song, a living song everywhere

By the ox and the fox and the grizzly bear

The grumpy alligator and the hawk above

The sly old weasel and the turtle dove.