THE HIPWADERS' - "EDUCATED KID" album lyrics by Tito Uquillas (except where noted) 

LITTLE BABY BROTHER

Little baby brother crawlin’ on the rug
You’re lookin’ so cute I wanna give you a hug
Please don’t break my toys and I’ll love you forever

Little baby brother it’s been Mommy, Daddy, me
I’d like to fit you in but I feel some jealousy
Please don’t take up all their time and I’ll love you forever

     I know it’s hard to share
     Believe me brother ‘cause I’ve been there
     It’s so easy - you’re so lucky
     To have a big brother like me ( like me!)

Little baby brother let’s make a deal
I’ll always have your back if you promise not to squeal
Please don’t tell on me and I’ll love you forever

   Chorus

   You gotta big brother like nobody other...
   If you got a big sister go ahead and kiss her (don’t do it!)

EDUCATED KID

Clown college, trucking school
Beauty college, it’s all so cool
     Uh, huh, uh, huh...
I’ve learned to write, I’ve learned to read
Now I can do most anything
     Uh huh, uh, huh...

Hey.........you’ve made it thru the world your way
Hey.........tell them how you did what you did

     I’m just an educated kid

Get scholarships, student loans
Special grants, get schooled at home
     Uh, huh...
I love to learn & question things
I need the answers to everything
     Uh, huh...

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Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief
Don’t need such jobs with high prestige
     Uh, huh...
Pursue your passion, do what you love
Persevere, you’ll rise above
    Uh, huh....

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THE HISTORY OF DECLAN RAE

Big Bang led to Priscoan
Which led to the Archaen
Then came the Proterozoic eons long ago
First came rocks and the oceans
A stable atmosphere...and then came you (deep time...)

The Paleozoic era came when creatures crawled on land
A turbulent time on planet earth with multiple extinctions
Creatures went from sea to land
Land to sea and back...and then came you (deep time...)

     This is the history of Declan Rae
     You’ll find you got here in a similar way

The Mesozoic era was the time of dinosaurs
Quetzocoutlus flew above the giant herbivores
Horns and frills, spikes on tails
Sails that grew on backs...and then came you (deep time)

The early Cenozoic brought us mammals by the score
Wooly Mammoths, Saber-tooths
With man soon at the door
Out of trees onto savannah
Africa to California...and then came you (deep time)

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DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM

The bookmobile went and lost a wheel 
Crashed into my room
I fell in the book deposit bin
I could not swim
I was so scared so unprepared
I cried HELP

     Ivan librarian gave me a card
     He said this will take you places
     Besides where you are
     Head for the future
     Or go to the past
     A library card will get you there really fast

I decided to spread the word
About what I’d heard
So I fixed that wheel on the busted bookmobile
Backed out of my room
With good cheer I gathered all to hear
What I’d been told

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(dewey, dewey, dewey, dewey, dewey decimal system, dewey)
Dewey has ten classes
each class has ten divisions
each divided on and on

First there’s  generalities
Philosophy, psychology
Religion, social science, languages

Next up there’s math and science
Medicine, technology
Arts like music, clowns & puppetry

At the end there’s literature
Geography and history
The biography of Mr. Melvil Dewey...

SONG OF THE PALEO PIRATES

I’m the Paleo Pirate I sail the seas
Lookin’ for dinosaurs ‘cause it please me
I’ve caught Plesiosaurs near New French Guinea
And once in Madagascar an Allosaurus caught me

   Yo, Ho, Yo, Ho, Ho
   We’re the Paleo Pirates lookin’ for dinosaurs
   Yo, Ho, Yo, Ho, Ho
   We’re fighting with Raptors and Carnosaurs

I got me a skipper named Aidan Neil
Busy naming dinos when he’s not at the wheel
He’s also the cook favors Spinosaurus meat
Look out for them bones they’ll get stuck in your teeth

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Declan Rae is first mate that’s a fact
Doesn’t say much just rocks forwards and back
He’s jumpy and giddy and ready for a fight
Snags Pterodactls as they’re flying by

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Now once on an island we discovered some tracks
We followed them awhile, got lost, doubled back
We marched for a time in a very bad mood
Ran right into T-Rex - he was lookin’ for food

He roared - we ran - I took a quick look around
I saw these children knock him right to the ground
Before he passed ou he queried me this...
“Please tell me who the heck are these kids?”

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Look out all you dinos wherever you be
We’re comin’ to get you - these children and me

GEOMETRY

A 4-sided shape equal length on all sides 
Is called a square
A circle is a shape without corners or angles
Round and round it goes
Some of my friends say I’m a square peg
Forced into a round hole
I am who I am take a mathematical stand
And here’s what you should know...

     The shape I’m in 
     Oh the shapes I see
     It’s Geometry

Connection of the angles of isosceles triangles
Form 3 sides
2 of the sides are equal in length
It’s pleasing to the eye
Several together - now this is no conjecture
It’s a pyramid
You can stuff it as you like and if your aim is to fright
You put a mummy in...
                        
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"Geometry means 'earth measurement'.  Since the beginning,  people have 
been using geometry to build roads, buildings and irrigation systems.  Remarkably,  geometry has what are called postulates.  These are theories 
that have never been proven but have worked for thousands of years.  Did 
you know that a line goes on forever - we just can’t actually prove it.  That’s a postulate"

Some of my friends think I’m a square peg 
Forced into a round hole
I am what I am take a mathematical stand
And here’s what you should know...

CHORUS (end)

AIDAN’S TRAIN

I just left the station
Gonna take a trip, ride the rails
   (gonna take a railroading vacation)
A window view sets the scene
Passing scenery prompts my dreams
   (I just love that locomotive rhythm)

     Gonna take that yucca choo choo
     Don’t know were I’m gonna go to
     This old train will take me far
     As I lie and dream in a sleeper car...

There’s no bags to claim
When you climb aboard Aidan’s train
   (gonna take a railroading vacation)
Relax and let your mind go
You’ll only need pajamas and a pillow
   (I just love that locomotive rhythm)

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ART CAR

Looking at my car it seems kind of plain
I’d like to fix it up so it doesn’t look the same
As all the other cars going down the street
Maybe you could help - that’d be really neat!

     Art car - yeah, yeah
     Help me with my art car - yeah, yeah
     Art car...

Let’s glue on some buttons, beads, and broken toys
Let’s put lots of googlie eyes all over the doors
We can plant a lawn right on top of the hood
Nobody can tell us what we shouldn’t do and should
     
     Lets do it!
     You can glue it!
     Bring your things, everybody sing!

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We can put marsupials all over the sides
With candy in the pouches making for a sweet ride
Godzilla breathing fire would be cool on the roof
And King Kong sneaking up behind as a goof

     Lets do it!
     You can glue it!
     Bring your things, everybody sing!

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YOU’VE GOT TO MOVE

Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba...

Exercise your body try to move it all
Or one day you will find you’re just as wide as tall

    You’ve got to move
    You’ve got to move, move, move

Your body needs to run, swing, twist, hop
To be healthy all your life don’t you ever stop
     
     CHORUS

Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba,  ba, ba...

Try a cartwheel, a somersault, a flip
Limit the junk food like potato chips

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Do you like pizza? (yeah!) of course you do
If you’re gonna eat it you know what must do

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          Everybody shake! (Shake, shake, shake)
             Everybody twist (twist like this)
                 Everybody hop (hop on pop!)
                       Now everybody stop!

   You've got to move.... 
          Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba....

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SPEED OF LOVE

Things below are suddenly above
I’m a victim of a puppy’s love
This little doggie has spun me ‘round
Head first I go I make a screaming sound

     I’m falling at the speed of love

Got a goldfish and a hermit crab
“That’s good enough!” cried Mom and Dad
Can’t help the feeling that I’ve been robbed
Come on Mom & Dad I want a puppy dog!

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          Big sad eyes and a cold wet nose
          A soft fuzzy puppy that I can hold
          A cute little doggie keeps on calling
          It’s difficult to walk when I keep on falling...

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I’ll feed him and I’ll bathe him and we’ll go for walks
I’ll even scoop his doodie off the sidewalk
Any breed will do - I’m living in a fog
I’m so blinded by love I’ll need a seeing eye dog

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   I want that dog...I need that dog...I love that dog

CAT IN A BATHYSPHERE

I study creatures living deep in the sea
& when I take the sub my kitty usually goes with me
Don’t ever go alone - no means “no”
Kitty never listens and now she’s going solo

     Black kitty cat kicking back in a bathysphere
     You took my craft - you naughty cat - you better get your tail back here

Kitty’s got her whiskers all twitching in delight
A lantern fish illuminates the darkest depths at night
In this dream world where Neptune is king
Kitty takes a cat nap as a group of mermaids sing...
      
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Kitty wakes up quickly as the bathysphere’s attacked
A giant squid monster has inked the water black
Without the proper training this kitty would be toast
“Cat saves bathysphere” is what the papers wrote

     CHORUS
                  mermaids sing...

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STUFFED ANIMAL BOY  (lyrics by Aidan & Tito Uquillas)

He does battle with the broccoli people
Man-eating Computer -  he’s so evil
He’s saving the masses from Karate Sunglasses
He can talk to all of your toys!

     Here he comes - Stuffed Animal Boy (x2)

Hiss of Death is one of his powers
Tail Whip is just one of his tools
He takes on evil with his Teeth Scratch
This crime-fighting Panda really rules!

     CHORUS (x4)

          Stuffed animal boy
                Defender of the weak
          Stuffed animal boy
                Looks out for you and me
          Stuffed animal boy...

       Is that Action Figure Man?  No...
       Wind-up Robot?  No...
       Baby Cries-A-Lot?  NO!
       oh...

     CHORUS

copyright 2007 Fausto G. Uquillas