The Elephant Song Lyrics

Kamahl The Elephant Song

The Elephant Song

Tell me said the elephant
Tell me brothers if you can
Why all the world is full of creatures
Yet we grow in fear of man
Tell me said the elephant
tell me why this has to be
we have to run from man the hunter
never safe and never free

refrain:

-people kill without regret
although they fly by jumbo-jet
let the word of man remember
let the children not forget.

Gentle is the elephant
Pulling loads and everything
we love to hear the children laughing
when we're in the circus-ring
Happy was the elephant
Happy was his jungle life
and then they came,
the cruel hunter with a rifle and a knife

refrain:...

Listen, please listen, said the elephant
if we want the world we know, to stay alive
Then man and beast, we must work together
And together we will survive

Listen said the elephant
It is conservation time
So take the warning when we trumpet
For the future of mankind

refrain..