All God's Creatures

CHORUS: All God's creatures got a place in the choir
Some sing low, 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, it's the one on the bottom
Where the bullfrog croaks and the hippopotamus
Moans and groans in a big tattoo
And the old cow just goes "moo"
The dogs and the cats, they take up the middle
Where the honeybee hums and the crickets fiddle
The donkey brays and the pony neighs
And the old gray badger sighs, oh.

CHORUS

Listen to the top with the little birds singing
And the melodies and the high notes ringing
And the hoot owl cries over everything
And the blackbird disagrees
Singing in the nighttime, singing in the day
And the little duck quacks and he's on his way
And the otter hasn't got much to say
And the porcupine talks to himself

It's a simple song, a little song everywhere
By the ox and the fox and the grizzly bear
The dopey alligator and the hawk above
The sly old weasel and the turtle dove.

CHORUS
All God's creatures got a place in the choir!

(I don't recall ever hearing this song while working at PV, but it shows up in at least one of the older songbooks, so perhaps it was used in the 90's before I got to PV? It has been rather recently recorded by the Irish ensemble group Celtic Thunder.)