Melanie Animal Crackers lyrics

Oh, eat your animal crackers 'cause my mother told me so long ago
"If you eat your animal crackers
The children in Europe won't starve anymore".

Oh I love eating ice cream,chocolate, vanilla and butter pecan
But I best love animal crackers 'cause I love helping my fellow man
Yeah, I eat more crackers than anyone can
(I forgot the words, once, thank you)

Once I went on a diet
(That's the Freudian part, is it, when I forget it)
Once I went on a diet a carbohydrate diet ain't nice

'Cause you can't eat animal crackers
So, I'm gonna stay a fatty for all of my life
But some people think that fatties are nice, yeah

Did you ever hear of Alice's restaurant?
I eat at Alice's restaurant year after year

She makes an animal cracker pizza, ha

And she gives animal crackers out free with the beer
Oh, let's give Alice a great big cheer
She knows the age, ah, animal crackers are in this year

I wrote this song in Columbus, Missouri.
I was, had a day off, so I, I wanted to go to the country
And that wasn't very difficult because the country was
Columbus, Missouri is the country

And I walked outside my door and I saw a big cow and I said
"Oh, moo, you know, don't you, you know that I don't eat cows?"
And the cow didn't say anything except, "Mm, Melanie"
And so, and so I wrote him this song, and I wrote it really for all the cows