[Verse 1]
    G                            C           G
The Eastern hare wallaby and the Desert bandicoot
    D                               C               G
The White-footed rabbit-rat and the Broad-faced potoroo
    G                                 C            D
The Bulldog rat, the Bluebuck and the Dusky flying fox
    D                            C              G
The Falkland Island Wolf and the Big-eared hopping mouse

[Verse 2]
    G                              C                G
The Madagascan pygmy hippo and the Christmas Island shrew
    D                             C                  G
The Gloomy tube-nosed bat and Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo
    G                                   C              G
The Sea mink and the Forrest Ox and the Relict leopard frog
    D                           C            G
The Caribbean monk seal and the Utah prairie dog

[Chorus]
  G                       C                   G
Collapse, collapse, these creatures could not last
  D                            C      G
How long till we're aghast? Perhaps collapse
  G                    C             G
Collapse, collapse and all of it forecast
D                       C       G
Let's not be the last before collapse

[Verse 3]
    G                                    C               G
The Blue whale and the Fin whale and the Wild water buffalo
    D                           C               G
The Ganges river dolphin and DeWinton's golden mole
    G                         C                   G
The Japanese Sea Lion and the Lightning man triplefin
    D                                          C               G
The Shortnose sucker, the Rhim gazelle and the Philippine pangolin

[Verse 4]
    G                            C            G
The Giant crowned flying fox and Père David's deer
    D                                              C            G
The Bluemask darter, the Hong Kong grouper and the Idaho ground squirrel
    G                                          C            G
The Jamaican monkey, the Large sloth lemur and Emma's giant rat
    D                         C                  G
The Bornean ferret-badger and Bokermann's nectar bat


[Chorus]
   G                      C                   G
Collapse, collapse, we're falling and falling fast
        D                          C              G
and our head is up our ass in this unsurpassed collapse
    G                  C             G
Collapse, collapse and all of it forecast
D                       C       G
Let's not be the last before collapse