Tuesday, October 26, 2010

I Love the Library

From "The Masked Retriever"

The library, the library, I love, love, love the library
One thing you should know about me, I love, love, love...the library!
It's a place that's bright and warm
It's a place that's calm and quiet
It's a place where you can read a book and you don't...have to buy it
The chairs are nice and comfy
The lighting is just right, any book you want is here
And if I could...I'd stay all night! I like to read biographies and scientific theory
There's comic books and cookbooks, too, and the history of...Lake Erie
I find a book and sit and read by the light of the tasteful lamp
And if you want to take it home, I'll stamp it with...my trusty stamp
What if I want a particular book that's high up on a shelf?
We've got rolling footstools and you can get it down yourself
And if the book's up really high?
That's no tricky matter, just come and ask the librarian and I'll climb my fancy ladder
The library, the library, I love, love, love the library
You love it just as much as me
We love, love, love...the library!









A Happy, Happy Ending

From "The Masked Retriever"

Now I'm happy and I have this happy look, 'cause now I've got the time to finish up this book
Hey, Don Austin, I'm glad to let you do it, you did the right thing, you came here to renew it
I don't have to run off like a bandit for the border
I don't have to worry that my books are not in order...
Looks like we got us a happy, happy ending
It all went down and nobody's sore
Looks like we got us a happy, happy ending
Better than the ending I was picturing before!
Now I'm smiling and here's what it's all about, when he returns that book, then I can take it out
First did our guarding, but now, we're happy guards, 'cause now that things are settled, our job is not so hard
I'm so pleased that soon that book will be back in the stacks
We're so pleased that now we can just hang out and relax...
Looks like we got us a happy, happy ending
It all worked out and everybody won
Looks like we got us a happy, happy ending
The best kind of ending when adventures are done!









The Worman Party

 From "What's Bugging You?"


(Tyrone, Uniqua, Tasha, and Pablo with the Wormans)



Tyrone:
Don't worry we'll help you clean up.


Wormans:
Clean up?! Clean up!!

Tyrone, Uniqua, and Tasha: 
Worman, worman party!


Wormans:
Uno, dos, tres...

Tyrone, Uniqua, and Tasha:
Worman, worman party!


Wormans:
Let's clean up this place!

Uniqua:
  I think the wormans want to clean up the mess.


Tyrone:
I certainly wasn't expecting that!

Tyrone and Uniqua:
We'll scrub and wipe and mop


Tasha:
We'll buff and clean and shine

Tyrone and Uniqua:
And we must not forget...


Wormans:
...to have a real good time!

Tyrone and Uniqua:
We'll fluff up the pillows


Tasha:
And sweep the floor real fast

Tyrone and Uniqua:
When you clean with wormans...


Wormans:
...you always have a blast!

Tyrone, Uniqua, and Tasha:
Worman, worman party!


Wormans:
Uno, dos, tres...

Tyrone, Uniqua, and Tasha:
Worman, worman party!


Wormans:
Let's clean up this place!

Uniqua:
First we were so stressed, ahh!


Tyrone and Uniqua:
The whole house was a mess, ahh!

Tasha:
But now we are so blessed, ahh!


Tyrone and Uniqua:
Cause wormans are the best, ahh! Whoever would have guessed, ahh!

Tasha:
We love this party pest, ahh!


Tyrone, Uniqua, Tasha:
We passed this cleanup test, ahh!

Pablo:
And now it's a fiest-ahhh!


All:
Worman, worman party!

Wormans:
Uno, dos, tres...


All:
Worman, worman party!

Wormans:
Let's clean up this place!


All:
Worman, worman party!

Wormans:
Uno, dos, tres...


All:
Worman, worman party!

Pablo:
There's a smile on my face!











Monday, October 25, 2010

Front Page News

From "Front Page News"
(Pablo and Tasha)




Pablo:
You've taken lots of photos but do you really know

How to shoot the kind of shot that makes them all say "Whoa!"


Cause that's the kind of picture our paper need rights now, you think that you can get one, kid?

Tasha:
You betcha, bub, and how! For the front page, front page, front page news

I'll take a perfect picture to give us rave reviews


Pablo:
Well, bring me back a couple, kid, and that way I can choose

For the front page, front page, front page news!

Tasha:
I've snapped a lot of snapshots for the paper's other pages


Of puppies and presidents and actors up on stages

Pablo:
Well, that's all fine and dandy, but you haven't made the grade

Until you shoot a shot so hot that it can be displayed


On the front page, front page, front page news! It's gotta be a grabber, no pretty sunset blues

Tasha:
I'm gonna click a winner, no way that I can lose

Both:
For the front page, front page, front page news!


Tasha:
A picture of a superhero breaking up a fight

Pablo:
A picture of a flying saucer lighting up the night


Tasha:
A picture of a bad guy caught red-handed in a caper

Pablo:
A picture that makes people say: "I gotta have that paper!!"


Both:
Oh, the front page, front page, front page news

Pablo:
The picture makes the people grab the paper and peruse


Tasha:
They'll read 'em by the thousands, not just the ones and twos

Both:
Oh, the front page, front page, front page news!









Bug Girl

From "Front Page News"


(Uniqua and Tasha)



Uniqua:
I'm a strong superhero with the powers of a bug


Tasha:
Though a bug isn't something that the people like to hug

Uniqua:
But you might wanna hug me when I save the world from evil


I float like a butterfly and sting like a weevil

Bug Girl, Bug Girl, here to save the day! Here to save the day the wing-ed insect way!

Tasha:
Goodness conquers badness and crime doesn't pay

Uniqua:
Bug Girl, Bug Girl, here to save the day!


I fly through the air, I dig through the dirt, I've got a hard shell so I never get hurt

I will move that robot, have no fear, I'll fly around his head and buzz in his ear

Tasha:
Bug Girl, Bug Girl, here to save the day! Here to save the day the wing-ed insect way!

Uniqua:
You can't swat a hero, like I always say


Both:
Bug Girl, Bug Girl, here to save the day!

Uniqua:
Listen here, robot, you're in the wrong place, you can't delay this plane another hour


Listen here, robot, if you don't move yourself, I'll move with my super insect power

Both:
Bug Girl, Bug Girl, here to save the day! Here to save the day the wing-ed insect way!

Uniqua:
Get a good picture of my victory, okay?


Both:
Bug Girl, Bug Girl, here to save the day! Bug Girl, Bug Girl, here to save the day!










I Got a Secret Identity

From "Front Page News"
 (Tasha Solo)




I'm usually just a photographer snappin' pictures for the news

I try to take some good shots that the newspaper can use

But if I hear some kind of trouble or see it with my eyes

I spin and snap and just like that...I change my whole disguise

I got a secret identity, it's crazy but it's true


Yeah, I got a secret identity and nobody knows but you...nobody knows but you...

When I'm a superhero, I run with super speed

I zip and zoom around the town and rescue those in need

And when I am all finished, I strike this nifty pose

I spin and snap and just like that...I'm in my normal clothes

I got a secret identity, it's crazy but it's true


Yeah, I got a secret identity and nobody knows but you...nobody knows but you...










The Gods of Mount Olympus

From "Match on Mt. Olympus"

Come on, let's go above the clouds to a place that's way up high
Where ancient gods control the world from their thrones up in the sky
I'm not sure that we'll be welcome
Aw, come on, don't be a wimpus
Wimpus?
Come on with me and we'll go see...the gods of Mount Olympus
Up above on Mount Olympus is a world all soft and white
Where we'll ask the gods to stop the rain and be back before tonight
I agree it would be better if the sun were out again
So may I suggest an heroic quest
A heroic task
Let's go and ask the gods of Mount Olympus
We should take with us an offering, something that might appease
Cause the gods are often grumpy and they can be hard to please
We could teach them basketball!
Now you're talkin'!
Count me in, my dear companion, you don't have to ask me twice
Let's go and find this Tasha, she might even be nice
It'll be a great adventure playing basketball in the sky
So come on, let's go
Together we'll go
Where the rain don't fall
And the wind don't blow
And they can't say no to some guys from below the clouds of Mount Olympus!
So come with me and we'll go and see the gods of Mount Olympus!