More Suessical Songs to practise

Horton Hears a Who

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge8pTA1Dxw4

CAT (to JOJO) Our story begins With a very strange sound The drums of a jungle Beginning to pound

CAT Now, imagine a sky

BOY I'll imagine bright blue

CAT It's the Jungle of Nool!

BOY Near the River Walloo!

ALL (except Cat & Boy) (4X who who wah dah)

Who who wah dah

Who who who wah dah dah dah

Who who wah dah

Who who who wah dah

CAT Now think of an elephant lumbering through.

ALL (except Cat & Boy) Who who wah dah

Who who who wah dah dah dah

BOY (spoken) Horton!

CAT (spoken) Yes, Horton

CAT, BOY (spoken) Horton Hears a Who!

HORTON On the fifteenth of May In the jungle of Nool In the heat of the day In the cool of the pool He was splashin

ALL (except Horton) Splash!

HORTON Enjoying the jungle's great joys When Horton the elephant

BOY Horton the Elephant

ALL Horton the elephant

HORTON Heard a small noise

MAYOR (Offstage, distant and tiny) Help! Help!

BIRD GIRLS So Horton stopped splashing He looked toward the sound

HORTON That's funny

BIRD GIRLS Thought Horton

HORTON There's no one around

BIRD GIRLS Then he heard it again Just a very faint yelp

HORTON As if some tiny person were calling for help

MAYOR (Offstage, distant and tiny) Help! Help!

HORTON I'll help you

BIRD GIRLS Said Horton

HORTON But who are you, and where?

BIRD GIRLS He looked and he looked He could see nothing there

HORTON But a small speck of dust blowing past...

BIRD GIRLS Woosh!

HORTON Through the air

HORTON (spoken) I say! How confusing! I've never heard tell

Of a small speck of dust that is able to yell So you know what I think? Why I think that there must be someone on top of that small speck of dust Some poor tiny person Who's shaking with fear That he'll blow in the pool! He has no way to steer! He's alone in the universe...! I'll just have to save him Because after all A person's a person, no matter how small. A person's a person no matter how small.

ALL (except Cat, Boy & Horton) Who who wah dah who who who wah dah dah dah who who wah dah who who

BIRD GIRLS So, gently, and using The greatest of care The elephant stretched His great trunk through the air And he lifted the dust speck And carried it over and placed it down

HORTON (spoken) Safe!

BIRD GIRLS On a very soft clover