A 1935 popular song.
Words by Ted Koehler and Irving Caesar.
Music by Ray Henderson.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Once my mother said, “My little pet
You ought to learn the alphabet”
So, in my soup I used to get
All the letter of the alphabet
I learned them all from A to Z
And no my mother’s giving me
Chorus
Animal crackers in my soup
Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop
Gosh, oh gee, but I have fun
Swallowin’ animals one by one
In every bowl of soup I see
Lions and tigers watching me
I make ’em jump right through a hoop
Those animal crackers in my soup
When I get hold of the “Big bad wolf”
I just push him under to drown
Then I bite him in a million bits
And I gobble him right down
When they’re inside me where it’s dark
I walk around like “Noah’s ark”
I stuff my tummy like a “Goop”
With animal crackers in my soup