Little by Little

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