[Verso 1]
 
A                                Bm 
Wally, please tell me where you think you're hoppin to 
E                                A 
December here is too cold for a wallaroo 
A                           Bm 
Wally, don't you know the cops are on your tail 
E                                        A 
to throw you in the municipal marcupial jail 


[Refrão]
 
F#                   Bm 
Wally zigged and he zagged 
E 
hopped through the side streets 
E 
hopped through the mian streets 
E                         A 
hopped into the river at last 


[Ponte]
 
F#                         Bm 
The police tried to rescue him 
E                                                A 
He wallaroo paddled out too far, in the ice cold water 
F#                             Bm 
he nearly drowned until some fisherman 
E                           A 
sooped him up in their fishin net 
nc 
"hey we caught us a kangaroo or somunthing" 


[Verso 2]
 
A                        Bm 
Wally, you gave us quite the scare 
            E                             A 
We're just glad to see you're safe, so many people care 
A                                         Bm 
I nefer thought I'd sing a song about an Illinois Valley Walleroo 
E                                               A 
I didn't even know what one was until December two