| Sittin' in Nairobi in a jungle restaurant
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| A group of local natives ordered elephant
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| «How they gonna eat that thing?», I asked a friend of mine
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| He said, «With salt and pepper and one bite at a time»
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| And they ate it little by little and bit by bit
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| Just a-chewin' and a-chompin' 'til they swallowed all of it
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| There is no mountain so high you can’t conquer it
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| Little by little, little by little, little by little
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| And bit by bit
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| Hey John D. Rockefeller, you were the King of the Buck
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| I wonder, were you clever or was it just dumb luck?
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| «Never try to make a million, boys, it’ll boggle your mind
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| Just try to make one dollar nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand times»
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| And do it little by little and bit by bit
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| «A dollar here, a dollar there, I got most all of it»
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| There ain’t no mountain so high you can’t conquer it
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| Little by little, little by little, little by little
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| And bit by bit
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| Now when life is like a pachyderm piled upon your plate
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| Everybody wants it yesterday and they can’t wait
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| Just find a little tasty piece of trunk or ear
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| And say, «I don’t know where I’ll finish
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| But I’m gonna start right here»
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| And take it little by little, bit by bit
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| A-chewin' and a-chompin' till you’ve swallowed all of it
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| There ain’t no mountain so high you can’t conquer it
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| Little by little, little by little, little by little
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| And bit by bit
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| Well, sometimes when I look at this old life of mine
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| I see the hurrier I go, the more I get behind
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| But I know the secret to a happy life at home
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| Is not to build it overnight but lay it stone on top of stone
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| And do it little by little and bit by bit
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| And fill it up with love in every part of it
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| There ain’t no mountain so high you can’t conquer it
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| Little by little, little by little, little by little
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| And bit by bit |