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Song from the film Hans Christian Andersen

"Inchworm", also known as "The Inch Worm", is a song originally performed by Danny Kaye in the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen. It was written by Frank Loesser.

Lyrics

The song's lyrics express a carpe diem sentiment, with the singer noting that the inchworm of the title has a "business-like mind", and is blind to the beauty of the flowers it encounters:

Two and two are four

Four and four are eight

That's all you have on your business-like mind

Two and two are four

Four and four are eight

How can you be so blind?

Subsequent verses include the lines "Measuring the marigolds, you and your arithmetic / You'll probably go far" and "Seems to me you'd stop and see / How beautiful they are".

Loesser wrote a counterpoint chorus that, sung by itself, has become popular as a children's song because of its arithmetical chorus:

Two and two are four

Four and four are eight

Eight an