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