Intro (Wild Kingdom)

Intro is a song by The Menagerie and the first track on the 2005 album Wild Kingdom.

Lyrics
The track does not feature formal lyrics, though also not a formal instrumental. It instead samples music dialogue from other sources and ends with several lines from a much older song:

The elephant walks around, around; the band begins to play

The boys around the monkey's cage had better keep away

Joe Johnson was a fellow, the bravest ever found

He owns the greatest menagerie that ever was in town

Trivia

 * The ending lines are partly adapted from "Van Amburgh's Menagerie", a song written in 1865 for animal trainer Isaac A. Van Amburgh, whose traveling shows and trained wild animal acts paved the way for combining menageries and circuses.