LOLLY! LOLLY! LOLLY! Get your adverbs here!

[bertha katzenengel]

Inspired by the "lollygag" thread.

What's your favorite Schoolhouse Rock song?

Mine are:

We The People

Eight

Little Twelve Toes

Exclamation!

and of course

Conjunction Junction!

[Blue-Jay]

1. Three Is A Magic Number

I also love Interplanet Janet

[Arugula Latte]

2. Gotta go with Conjunction Junction

What's your function?

Love it.

I've got the Schoolhouse Rock video and I'm going to have my kids watch it. "Look kids! Now this was television back in the day!"

I also liked "I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and I'm sittin' up on Capitol Hill."

[motely36]

3. I love interjections

most of the grammer ones are good.

I also like I'm just a bill and we the people

[iamjoy]

4. What About "Interjections"

or "Unpack Your Adjectives"

or, "I'm Just A Bill"

I loved Schoolhouse rock, don't know why they got rid of it.

[bertha katzenengel]

5. That's what I meant when I wrote "Exclamations."

I failed. :(

[proud patriot]

6. 1)Interjections ! 2) I'm just a Bill 3)Preamble

:hi:

[MalibuChloe]

17. Hey! That's not fair!

Giving a guy a shot down there!

[El Fuego]

7. I heard the Noun song on XM radio the other day

On the 70s channel. I thought that was pretty cool!

[Shell Beau]

8. Lolly is my mini-pin's name!

The little one is Lolly!

[MostlyLurks]

9. VERB! n/t

[Theres-a]

10. We the people!

In order to form a more perfect union,establish justice and liberty to ourselves and our posterity,do ordain and establish this constitution for the united states of america-a-a.That's all I remember.

[jobycom]

18. I can't recite the preamble without it!

We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare a-hand (that's how it's sung!), secure the blessings of liberty, to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Yes, that's from memory, and just because of that song! 30 years later, and I remember it.

Michael Eisner has had an effect on my generation, that's for sure.

[Avalux]

11. "I'm Just A Bill!"

Loved that one - my first introduction to politics. :hi:

[JimmyJazz]

15. mine, too!

:hi:

[Shakespeare]

12. ooh, long list....and even though it's un-PC .....

....I LOVE "Elbow Room" because 1. it's a catchy tune (like all Schoolhouse Rock pieces), and 2. it crams an AMAZING amount of information into a 3-minute song (hell, they even get Sacajawea's name into the lyrics).

Also love:

Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla

Tale of Mr. Morton

Noun Is a Person, Place or Thing

Interjections!

Sufferin' Till Suffrage

Preamble

[no name no slogan]

13. as a PoliSci BA holder, "I'm Just A Bill" wins

but even better was the Simpsons' parody "The Amendment Song":

Boy: Hey, who left all this garbage on the steps of Congress?
Amendment: I'm not garbage, kid.

I'm an amendment to be
Yes an amendment to be
And I'm hoping that they ratify me
There's a lot of flag burners
Who have got too much freedom
I wanna make it legal for policemen
To beat 'em 'cause there's limits to our liberty
At least I hope and pray that there are
'Cause those liberal freaks go too far

Boy: But why can't we just make a law against flag burning?
Amendment: Because that law would be unconstitutional
But if we CHANGED the Constitution...
Boy: Then we could make all sorts of crazy laws!
Amendment: Now you're catching on!

Bart: What the hell is this?
Lisa: It's one of those campy 70s throwbacks that appeal to Generation X-ers
Bart: We need another Vietnam. Thin out their ranks a little.

Boy: But what if people say you're not good enough to be in the Constitution?
Amendment: Then I"ll crush all opposition to me
And I'll make Ted Kennedy pay
If he fights back
I'll say that he's gay
Congressman: Good news, Amendment! They ratified you.
You're in the U.S. Constitution!
Amendment: Oh yeah! Door's open, boys!

(sounds of gun and bomb-toting amendments running into the Capitol)

[xmas74]

14. Conjunction Junction and I'm Just a Bill.

[VelmaD]

16. I usually say "I'm just a bill" or "Suffering til Suffrage"...

but in all honesty...there's this moment in "The Shot Heard 'Round the WOrld" that gets me every time. The line about "the continental rabble took the day". I don' tknow why, but that always makes me smile and feel like tearing up at the same time.

[bertha katzenengel]

21. if you were one of my sisters, I'd say "you bitch" - because that's

what we say to each other when we make each other tear up, even if it's for the exact same thing you just described, which always happens! And I do the same thing when I sing the national anthem at a ball game.

:hug:

[AlGore-08.com]

19. It's not my all time favorite, but nobody's posted "No More Kings" yet

Here are the lyrics:

Rockin' and rollin', splishin' and a-splashin',
Over the horizon, what can it be?


The pilgrims sailed the sea
To find a place to call their own.
In their ship, Mayflower,
They hoped to find a better home.
They finally knocked
On Plymouth Rock
And someone said, "We're there."
It may not look like home
But at this point I don't care.


Oh, they were missimg Mother England,
They swore their loyalty until the very end.
Anything you say, King,
It's OK, King,
You know it's kinda scary on your own.
Gonna build a new land
The way we planned.
Could you help us run it till it's grown?


They planted corn, you know
They built their houses one by one,
And bit by bit they worked
Until the colonies were done.
They looked around,
Yeah, up and down,
And someone said, "Hurray!"
If the king could only see us now
He would be proud of us today.


They knew that now they'd run their own land,
But George the Third still vowed
He'd rule them to the end.
Anything I say, do it my way now.


Anything I say, do it my way.
Don't you get to feeling independent
'Cause I'm gonna force you to obey.


He taxed their property,
He didn't give them any choice,
And back in England
He didn't give them any voice.
(That's called taxation without representation,
And it's not fair!)
But when the Colonies complained
The king said: "I don't care!"


He even has the nerve
To tax our cup of tea.
To put it kindly, King,
We really don't agree.


Gonna show you how we feel.
We're gonna dump this tea
And turn this harbor into
The biggest cup of tea in history!


They wanted no more Mother England.
They knew the time had come
For them to take command.
It's very clear you're being unfair, King,
No matter what you say, we won't obey.
Gonna hold a revolution now, King,
And we're gonna run it all our way
With no more kings...


We're gonna elect a president! (No more kings)
He's gonna do what the people want! (No more kings)
We're gonna run things our way! (No more kings)
Nobody's gonna tell us what to do!


Rockin' and rollin', splishin' and a-splashing,
Over the horizon, what can it be?
Looks like it's going to be a free country.

[jobycom]

20. "The Tale of Mr. Morton," "No More King," and "The Preamble."

[Democracy White]

22. I'm too young to have heard any of these

So I guess I missed out on a lot. I grew up with Seasame Street and Mr' Roger's Neighborhood.

Dee

[Lilyhoney]

23. I have all of theese in my itunes library

and it is always a nice surprise to hear when one is shuffled into a play list.