Ray Stevens - Little by Little lyrics

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