Playground by Mr. Billy

One of the great moments on this CD was written by kindergarteners titled "Don't Call Me a Bird" a song inspired by the book "Stella Luna" which compares bats and birds and shows off just how creative and intelligent small children can be. There are songs about outer space, reading, safety and "The Magic of our Future"(Children, of course). And in a surprise addition to his usual fare of contemporary beats and styles, you will find a polka called "Super Monkey" (just for fun!).

As a special bonus, Mr. Billy has included the song "Let's Go Writing". Also known as the "Six-Trait Song" on this CD. He has been performing it for over two years and it has never been made publicly available until now.

Mr. Billy is a full time academic entertainer from De Pere, Wisconsin, a two time Children's Music Web Award winner, and is recently voted "Northeastern Wisconsin's Family Favorite Children's Entertainer".

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LYRICS TO ALL SONGS...

Reading is Magic

Let’s go on a magic trip

Open a book not of a bag of chips

Get off the couch and take a look

At all the exciting story books

Reading is magic, reading is fun!

It can cast a spell on anyone

It’s hard to put a book down before you’re done

Reading is magic, reading is fun!

There are lots of different kinds of books

Biographies, fairy tales, and cookbooks

Magical places near and far

Books about a boy with a lightning scar

CHORUS

The adventures never have to end

Share new books with all your friends

Your imagination will grow and grow

With every book you get to know

CHORUS

Learn about things you never knew before

Foreign countries, famous people, and more

CHORUS

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Old MacDonald had a Rock & Roll Band

Old MacDonald had a Rock & Roll Band, ee-yi-ee-i-oh

And in his Band he had some Drums, ee-yi-ee-i-oh

With a (Drum Sound) here And a (Drum Sound) there

Here a (Drum Sound), there a (Drum Sound)

Everywhere a (Drum Sound)

Old MacDonald had a Rock & Roll Band, ee-yi-ee-i-oh ·

2nd verse: BASS·

3rd verse: GUITAR·

4th verse: PIANO·

5th verse: TRUMPET

Go, Old Macdonald go!

Go, Old Macdonald go, go!

Old Macdonald likes to rock and roll!

Go, Old Macdonald go!

Go, Old Macdonald go, go!

Old Macdonald likes to rock and roll!

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The Dog Ate My Homework

Oh, no, what’ll I do

When the teacher calls my name

She wants my paper that’s due today

It’s lost its missing its gone away

The Dog ate my homework (Roof! Roof!)

The Dog ate my homework (Roof! Roof!)

The Dog ate my homework (Roof! Roof!)

I’m not lying I’m telling the truth

The Dog ate my homework (Roof! Roof!)

I left it on the table and the dog came along

When I turned around I saw it was gone

I looked all around and no trace was found

I searched up and down in the trees and on the ground.

Chorus

I found it in the doghouse all chewed up

Then I knew I was out of luck

If the teacher gives my one more chance

I’ll do a wiggle-jiggle dance.

Chorus

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The Ants in Your Pants Dance

I’ve got a funny feeling and it’s tickling me

It feels like something’s crawling from my toes to my knees

My legs are getting itchy, is it poison ivy?

What else could it be? Could it be a flea biting me?

Oh no! Oh no!

I feel so itchy and I want to scratch

Like a monkey or a dog or a flea filled cat

Look at me now I’m starting to shake

Moving my hips like a big earth quake

Oh no! Oh no!

Shake you right leg, shake your left leg

Shake it up, shake it down

Spin around and around and around and around!

And do the ants in your pants dance

The ants in your pants dance

Shake you right leg, shake your left leg

Shake it up, shake it down

And do the ants in your pants dance

The ants in your pants dance

Everybody wants to dance like me

Let me tell you it’s as easy as can be

Find an anthill about so tall

And wait for those critters to creep and crawl

CHORUS

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Thirty Minutes or Less

(Around the Solar System)

I was sitting in my living room watching ET

When a polka dotted alien fell on me

It wasn’t a dream. I wanted to scream!

I thought all aliens were green and mean

How did he get here I wanted to know

He told me he fell through a big black hole

He wasn’t scary, he wasn’t green

He wanted a friend to take sightseeing

Thirty minutes or less, thirty minutes or less

I can take you around the solar system in thirty minutes or less

Thirty minutes or less, thirty minutes or less,

I can take you around the solar system in thirty minutes or less

We climbed aboard his UFO

But he went too fast and I yelled, “Whoa!”

The trip was fun, but way too fast

Here’s the planets we just blew past

We saw Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars

Jupiter, Saturn and all the stars

Uranus and Neptune, Pluto was last

Thirty minutes went by way too fast!

CHORUS

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars

Saturn, Jupiter and all the stars

Uranus and Neptune, Pluto was last

Thirty minutes went by way too fast!

CHORUS

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The Magic of Our Future

You don't need a crystal ball

Or a talking mirror 5 feet tall

Close your Harry Potter book

'Cause there's no potion you can cook

All you have to do is take a look, to find the magic

Who will be the magic?

We will be the magic!

Who will be the magic of our future?

Who will be the magic?

We will be the magic!

Children! The magic of our future

Children! The magic of our future

The magic and the miracles

Live inside each boy and girl

Little dreamers of today will be

Tomorrows leaders magically

Turning hopes and dreams into reality, just like magic

CHORUS

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Don’t Call Me a Bird

I have a head and a body too

Tiny eyes for seeing you

And a mouth I use to eat

A brain, two feet a heart that beats

Don’t call me a bird

Just because I have wings

Don’t call me a bird

I’m not a feathered thing

Don’t call me a bird

Don’t even try

I’m not a bird, what am I?

I’m not a bird, what am I?

You won’t find a beak on me

I have no nest up in a tree

I don’t lay eggs by the bunch

Or feed my babies worms for lunch

CHORUS

I fly at night and think its great

Using radar to echolocate

Thumbs and fur, hear me squeak

Upside down I like to sleep

CHORUS

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Creature Teacher

It was the first day of school my teacher was new

I wondered if my teacher would be creepy or cool

When I opened the door and peeked inside

I saw that my teacher had piercing red eyes

Creepy, crazy, freaky, scary and weird

That’s the kind of day this has been

Loco, cranky, coo-coo, fearful and strange

I wish that this day would end

She opened her mouth and out came weird sounds

We shivered in fear and knocked the door down

Outside in the hall the principal screamed

My eyes blasted open it was only a dream

CHORUS

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Super Monkey

Whatcha gonna do when your cat’s in a tree?

Time to call – SUPER MONKEY!

You need to bring your grade up from a F to a D

Time to call – SUPER MONKEY!

What do you do if you lose your keys?

Time to call – SUPER MONKEY!

Or too many bananas growing in Hawaii

Who can eat them all? – SUPER MONKEY!

Who is Super Monkey?

No one seems to know

Did he come from Space?

A Laboratory Place?

Or escape from a circus show?

If you have trouble with a Bully or a Bee

Time to call – SUPER MONKEY!

He protects us all from sea to shining sea

What’s his name? -- SUPER MONKEY!

CHORUS

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Let’s Go Writing

Let’s go writing

Six-Trait Writing

Yes, it’s exciting

Six-Trait Writing

One, two, three, four, five, Six-Traits

Use them all don’t hesitate

When you’re writing

Use Six-Trait Writing

Trait number one is where it’s begun

Every writer begins with ideas

Trait number two is important too

It’s no surprise you have to organize

Next find your voice and work on word choice

That makes four but wait there’s more!

Trait number five keeps your writing alive

It’s called sentence fluency

Trait number six is the last big fix, re-write and proof read

Conventions is the way to make good work great

And now you know all Six-Traits

CHORUS

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My Big Accident

My name is Amanda, I come from space

My home Planet X is a freaky place

A green alien with a slimy beard

My pet monkey Zippo is really weird

I was in my pink spaceship heading home

Zippo wouldn’t leave my beard alone

I yelled stop! He threw a spoon

I lost control and I hit the Moon!

I hit the Moon and I saw the stars

I didn’t even make it as far as Mars

It was a bad day that I’ll never forget

The day that I had my big accident

The day that I had my big accident

Don’t make the same mistake as me

Always drive responsibly

Keep your seatbelts on, and your pets in back

So that you’ll never have a terrible crash

CHORUS

The day that I had my big accident

The day that I had my big accident

The day that I had my big accident

The day that I had my big accident

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Playground

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Can you hear that happy sound?

Kids are playing on the new playground

Running, climbing, swinging too

That's what active children do

Fresh air

It's there

To share

Life without a care

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A great playground should always be

Clean and totally drug free

A place for all the kids to meet

Instead of playing on the street

Warm sun

And fun

Be young

Each and every one

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It's time to play!

It's time to play!

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All songs Copyright 2004 Mr. Billy, BMI

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