Answer:
What's the red stuff between elephant's toes?
I have eight to spare and am covered with hair.
A darkΒ-colored creature serenaded by Lennon and McCartney.
The alphabet goes from A to Z. What goes from Z to A?
When I'm metal or wood, I help you get home. When I'm flesh and I'm blood. In the darkness I roam.
I am the fountain from which no one can drink. For many I am considered a necessary link. Like gold to all I am sought for, but my continued death brings wealth for all to want more.