Said conrad cornelius o'donnel o'dell
my very young friend who is learning to spell
the a is for ape
the b is for bear
the c is for camel
the h is for hare
the m is for mouse 
the r is for rat
I know all the 26 letters like that.
through to z is for zebra, I know them all well
said conrad cornelius o'donnel o'dell
so now I know everything anyone knows
from beginning to end from the start to the close
because z is as far as the alphabet goes.
then he almost fell flat on his face on the floor
when I picked up the chalk and drew one letter more!
a letter he had never dreamed of before
and I said, you can stop, if you want, with the z
because most people stop with the z, but not me!
In the places I go there are things that I see
that I never could spell if I stopped with the z
I'm telling you this because you're one of my friends.
MY alphabet starts where YOUR alphabet ends
My alphabet starts with a letter called Yuzz,
it's a letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz
you'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found
once you go beyond z and start poking around
so on beyond zebra
explore like columbus!
discover new letters like Wum is for wumbus
my high-spouting whale who lives high on a hill
and who never comes down until it's time to refill
so on beyond z! it's high time you were shown
that you really don't know all there is to be known
then just step a step further past wum is for wumbus 
and there you'll find Um and the Um is for umbus
a sort of a cow with one head and one tail
but to milk this great cow you'll need more than one pail!
she has ninety-eight faucets that give milk quite nicely
perhaps ninety-nine, I forget just precisely
and boy, she is something most people don't see...
because most people stop at the z
but not me!
I ramble, I scramble, through swampf and through swumpf
and Glikk is for glikker who lives in wild weeds
and spends his time juggling fresh cinnamon seeds
which he's usually able to find in great number
excepting of course, in the month of septumber
when cinnamon seeds aren't around in great number
so that month he juggles with seeds of cucumber
and Nuh is the letter I use to spell nutches
who live in small caves known as nitches for hutches
these nutches have problems; the biggest of which is 
the fact that there are many more nutches than nitches
each nutch in a nitch knows that some other nutch 
would like to move into his nitch very much
so each nutch in a nitch has to watch that small nitch
or nutches who haven't got nitches will snitch
when you go beyond zebra 
who knows
there's no telling
what wonderful things you might find yourself spelling
like Quan is for quandary, who lives on a shelf
in a hole in the ocean alone by himself
and he worries each day from the dawns early light
just worries and worries far into the night
he just stands there and worries... he simply can't stop!
is his top side his bottom? or his bottom side top?
and Floob is for floob-boober-bab-boober-bubs
who bounce in the water like blubbery tubs
they're no good to eat
you can't cook them for steaks
but they're handy in crossing small rivers and lakes
and zatz is a letter I use to spell zatzit
who's nose is so high that most nobody pats it
and patting his lonely old nose is the least 
that a fellow can do for this fine friendly beast
so to get there and do it, I built an invention
a threeseater zatzit nose-patting extension
if YOU try to drive one
you'll certainly see
why most people stop with the z, but not me!
and way way past zebra is a letter called itch
and the itch is for itchapods
animals which
race around back and forth, forth and back, through the air
on a very wide sidewalk between HERE and THERE
they're afraid to stay THERE they're afraid to stay HERE
they think THERE is too far
they think HERE is too near
and since HERE is too near and THERE is too far
they're afraid to roost where-soever they are
the places I took him!
I tried hard to tell
young conrad cornelius o'donnel o'dell
a few brand new wonderful words he might spell
I led him around and I tried hard to show
there are things beyond zebra that most people don't know
I took him past zebra
as far as I could
and I think perhaps maybe I did him some good.
because finally he said
WOW this is really great stuff!
and I guess the old alphabet isn't enough!
NOW the letters he uses are something to see!
most people still stop at the z...
but not he!
*finis*