There are lions and roaring tigers, and enormous 
     camels and things,
There are biffalo-buffalo-bisons, and a great big 
     bear with wings.
There's a sort of a tiny potamus, and a tiny 
     nosserus too —
But I gave buns to the elephant when I went down 
     to the Zoo!

There are badgers and bidgers and bodgers, and a 
     Super-in-tendent's House,
There are masses of goats, and a Polar, and different 
     kinds of mouse,
And I think there's a sort of a something which is 
     called a wallaboo —
But I gave buns to the elephant when I went down 
     to the Zoo!

If you try to talk to the bison, he never quite 
     understands; 
You can't shake hands with a mingo — he doesn't 
     like shaking hands.
And lions and roaring tigers hate saying, "How do 
     you do?" —
But I give buns to the elephant when I go down to 
     the Zoo!