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 and hunter, never safe and never free.

People kill without regret, although they fly by jumbo-jet.

Let the word all may 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 live, and then they came, the cruel hunters,

with the rifle and the knive. People kill without regret,

although they fly by jumbo-jet. Let the word all may remember,

let the children not forget!

Listen, please listen, said the elephant, if we want the world we know,to stay alife,

Then man and beast, we must work together and together we will survive!

so take the warning when we trumpet,

for the future of mankind.

The singer is Kamahl, an Australian based singer, born of Tamil Hindu parents in Malaysia in He migrated to Adelaide to complete secondary schooling in He commenced his singing career in In 1994 he was awarded the OAM (Member of the Order of Australia) and Australia’s Centenary Medal in The Elephant Song is probably his best known song, it was used in a World Wildlife Fund documentary.