1. DEAREST FRIEND
by Rick Scott and China Goodhue

We call ourselves on the telephone
just to hear our golden tone
from coast to coast over land and sea
we tell our little stories
whatever they may be

Here I am in my London again
and where are you, my dearest friend?
and I will hope to you soon and then
we'll sing our songs that never end

When we come in here we're all alone
and it's the same when we go back home
from coast to coast over land and sea
we tell our little stories
whatever they may be

And here I am on my island again
and where are you, my dearest friend?
and I will hope to you soon and then
we'll sing our songs that never end

This song is based on a poem sent to me from England by my friend China. Tom Keenlyside arranged the horns and played them with Sharman and Derry..

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2. MAKING FACES
by Rick Scott

Every day I do my exercises
not the way you think
I do them in the bathroom
in the mirror over the sink
I brush my teeth
I wash my face
and then I comb my hair
'til I look like someone
just like me
and then I start to stare
I move my lip just a little bit
put my eyebrows in the air
I can't wait to see
all the faces I can be

Come on now, it's your turn, let's see you make a face...

Let's see HAPPY, now let's see SAD
well let's be SILLY, now let's get MAD
you get SUSPICIOUS, you find a CLUE
I'm so amazed at all the funny things
your face can do
but what's amazing is I can do them too
oh oh oh I can do them too
I make a face at any time or any place

CHORUS:
BooBideeoopBoopBahDahBooBideeoopBoopBah BooBideeoopBoopBahDahBeeBooBah BeeBooBahBeeBooBahAyHo BeeBooBahBeeBooBahAyAyAy BeeBooBahBeeBooBahAyHoAyHoOhwoOowo
You can do them too!

My doctor says that everyone
has muscles in their face
there are quite a few of them
in one small rounded place
It takes 8 to make a SMILE
16 to make a FROWN
4 to blink and two to WINK
5 to get your EYEBROWS UP and DOWN
I have a hunch it takes a BUNCH
to SCRUNCH your nose
I can't wait to see all the faces I can be

All right, let's pretend this is the facial aerobic Olympics
and we represent Canada... HOORAY!

Now let's be SERIOUS, now be a GOOF
now let's get CURIOUS, let's act ALOOF
now take a MOUTHFUL, let's see you CHEW
I'm so amazed at all the funny things
my face can do, and what's amazing
is you can do them too
oh oh oh you can do them too
youmake a face at any time or any place

REPEAT CHORUS: BooBideeoopBoopBahDah...

COME ON, MAKE A GREAT BIG FACE!

Every day since I was little boy just for fun I've practiced making faces in the mirror. Recently I found out that this is good for your face! Thank you, Dr. Tom Peters, for the facial muscle statistics.

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3. SONG FOR AUSTRALIA
by Rick Scott

CHORUS:
Hi there, Down Under, I'm from above
and a little bit over to the right
if you're looking at a map of the whole world

I read a book about ants and you're in it
you've got the oldest living ants on the planet
they've been around since the very first minutes of the world
here's a funny fact: opposites attract
and here I am in front of you and your Outback
and if by some chance you like the part about the ants
well their real name is Nothomyrmecia
that's Latin, it means 'old ant'

Repeat Chorus

When we've got our winter you're having summer
I talked to a friend of mine who happens to be a plumber
he said your water drains in an opposite direction kind of whirl*

I had to go downtown to get a visa
it's a piece of paper that I need to come to see you
I had to go to the Consulate from your part of the world
the Consulate lady sat behind some bulletproof glass
and asked me all the questions that she had to ask
I was feeling kind of nervous but she said
I had no worries in the world
here's a funny fact: opposites attract
and here I am in front of you and your Outback
and for this howdy-do I'd like to introduce to you
the Consulate lady, her name is Philomena
that's her first name, I think that's wonderful

Repeat Chorus

Hi there, Down Under - G'day G'day G'day, mate

Before I visit a country for the first time I like to make up a song to say hello when I get there. *This is called the Coriolis effect. A little boy in Sydney told me it only works for large bodies of water, not in your bathtub.

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4. DO-OVERS
by Rick Scott and Valerie Hennell

DO-OVER, DO-OVER, DO-OVER, OVER
YOU GET A DO-DO-DO-OVER, DO-DO-DO-OVER DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-OVER
DIT DIT DIT DIT DIT DIT DIT DIT DIT DIT OVER

Have you ever messed up completely? Yah! I mean you've done something just totally badly? Oh yah! Well, I've invented the solution! Oh yah, what is that? It's called DO-OVERS! Do what?

DIT-DIT-DIT DAH-DAH-DAH DIT-DIT-DIT
DIT-DIT-DIT DAH-DAH-DAH DIT-DIT-DIT

PST! Hey! There's something I want to say, especially if you're someone who's not
having a particularly spectacular day. Take it from a guy who often tries to shoot for the
pie in the sky only to end up with egg on his tie. You know what I mean! You're down
on the rug like a futon, at the bottom of your soup like a crouton! You know this dance,
the remedy is another chance, another turn, another try! And now, an actual story! Oh
that's a minor chord, it foreshadows a negative foreboding!

1. Well now just suppose you were thinking
about singing with me on this song...
Oh that would be great, I'd like that!
and you wanted to come in in just the
very right place... Well ,what place is that?
There it was and you missed it... you missed it
No I didn't. Did I miss it? Where?
but don't you think for a minute
that when you sing with me you could ever
make a mistake... Oh phew, a reprieve!
Because I say you can try again
h-oh-oh I say you can try again
'cause you're gonna get a
DO-OVER, DO-OVER, DO-OVER, OVER...

As I was saying before I was so musically interluded... Now let's just say things aren't
going your way: you've failed in your attempt, you're feeling folded and bent and flailing
with the consequent. Well I'm here to say may retract, refract, in fact... not to get too
scientific or too specific or anything there between Atlantic and Pacific, forget
DIT-DIT-DIT DAH-DAH-DAH DIT-DIT-DIT, turn your S.O.S. into YES OH YES! And now
another actual story... Oh, there's that minor chord again right here in the
recapitulation, I'm worried!

2. Well now just suppose I was thinking
about playing trombone on this song
I didn't know you played trombone!
and I wanted it to sound so fine 'n' sweet 'n' free
Are you sure you play trombone?
RICK'S TROMBONE SOLO
What was that? Well it was jazz!
Jazz? Yeah and I liked it
But if I didn't I could change it anytime
Let's hope so!

Because I say I can try again
oh-oh-oh I say I can try again
'cause you know you get a DO-OVER...
yes you gotta know you're gonna get
you're gonna get get
yes you gotta know you're gonna get
DO-OVERS!

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5. KITTY COW
by Rick Scott and Valley Hennell

I think cows are funny, how about you?
I just laugh myself in half over everything that's moo
and after all what's a meadow for
if not for cows to graze?
furry brown containers
that make milk out of hay

Mozart's EINE KLEINE MOO MUSIC

I think kitty cats are funny, how about you?
chasing strings and imaginary things
always with a-meow-meow-muse-ment
and they're from ancient Egypt
so they know better than you
soft as a pillow, hiding in the willow
always drinking moo juice

Johann Strauss' MEW DANUBE

I think humans are funny, how about you?
'cause they can go around and make any old sound like
DO-WACKA-DO-WACKA-DO-WACKA-DO-WACKA-DO
but they always fight about wrong and right
well let's just change that tune
and sing this song 'til the cat comes back
and the cow jumps over the moon

Rick's KITTY COW PARADE

Thank you, Ross and Shari, for being kitty cows with me. Sorry I said 'shut up'.

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6. BREWERY CREEK
by Rick Scott and Valley Hennell

Once by my house ran a beautiful creek
it got covered by the city, the steel and concrete
now it runs underground and that just isn't right
so my friends and I want to bring it up to daylight

CHORUS: Brewery Creek runs underground
so far down it can't be found
I don't know but I believe that's not how it wants to be
and the poet tries to write it but my friends all say
daylight it, day-ay-light it, day-ay-light it

Brewery Creek ran by my door, it does not run there anymore
not that someone made it stop, they just built that city right on top
I got to worrying late at night, Brewery Creek are you alright?
then way down, way down, thought I heard that gurgling sound

Repeat CHORUS: Brewery Creek runs underground...

Now way back not so long ago
you should have seen that old creek flow
finest playground you could wish
soak your toe or swim or fish
and just a little way upstream a building with a big machine
took that water drop by drop and turned it into soda pop

You take Brewery Creek and add vanilla, fizz it up with sarsaparilla
finest drink in all this land. What's that called? Red Hand Brand!
we drank that soda all over town
and then they shut that brewery down
way down, way down, thought I heard that gurgling sound

Repeat CHORUS: Brewery Creek runs underground...

Well the creek is gone but not for long and that is why we sing this song!

This is a true story about a Creek that runs under my home in Vancouver. The mandolin John Reischman is playing on this song was built in 1924 which is about the year that Brewery Creek was buried.

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7. DON'T KNOW BLUES
by Rick Scott and Valley Hennell

I feel so bad and why
I just don't know
I feel so bad but why
I just don't know
I just don't know
I feel like my old brain
just stubbed its toe

Sometimes I just
hang my head and cry
sometimes I just
hang my head and cry
cry cry cry
I get this big old puddle
in my eye

They tell me it gets better
but I don't know how
the only thing I know
is that it is not bettter now

I feel so sad and why
I just don't know
I feel so sad but why
I just don't know
I just don't know
I feel like my old heart
just stubbed its toe

That's Rob Steininger playing dobro and Allan Rodger singing the blues with me.

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8. PURPLE ELEPHANT
Rick Scott and Valerie Hennell

CHORUS: I look for my elephant, my purple elephant
I'm looking for my elephant, my purple elephant
elephant (chang)

The elephant comes from many different lands
Africa and India and old Thailand
we've got one right here in our school
not only that but it's a purple one too
and when we go outside
climb up on that great big purple hide
and take a journey with a song
'cause we all know elephants love to sing along

REPEAT CHORUS: So I sing with my elephant . . .

The elephant has a big purple face
and when it comes around it takes a lot purple space
now you might say well that can't be true
so then what's that purple thing right behind you?
and when we go to play there is just no finer way
to have a game unwind than with a friend
and a pachyderm that's kind and purple

REPEAT CHORUS: So I play with my elephant . . .

The elephant can't jump but it sure can dance
one ton tango in a pair of baggy pants
take one step, two step and slide right through
now wave your trunk and be an elephant too
and when we go to school, solve the problems
learn the purple rule that everybody gets a turn
and it's never too early to learn

REPEAT CHORUS: So I learn with my elephant . . .

Once upon a time in Thailand there was little boy with a purple crayon. One day an elephant came to his school... Dedicated to the Early Learning Cetnre in Bangkok. Did you know 'Chang' is Thai for 'elephant'?

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9. I SPEAK DUCK
by Rick Scott and Valerie Hennell

I speak Duck, I speak it fluently
when I go quack
they quack right back at me
so if you're stuck for duck diplomacy
you're in luck for I speak Duck
so stick with me

When autumn falls
and all the leaves turn brown
and all the ducks return to my pond
we chat of this and that and that and this
in duckly dialect we reminisce

Quack means 'I love you'
Quack means 'no I don't'
Quack means 'see you later'
Quack means 'actually, Bob,
that's not good for me but
maybe some time next week'

No nouns to modify, no verbs to disagree
the model of monosyllabic clarity
so if you're stuckfor duck diplomacy
then you're in luck for I speak duck
so speak with me

Je parle canard
je le parle couramment
quand je dis Coin Coin
on m'repond gracieusement
donc si t'es coince
ou un canard depayse
quelle chance, quelle joie
je parle carnard
viens l'parler avec moi

Thanks, Joelle Rabu, for speaking Duck in French. Dedicated to the ducks of Reef Cove.

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10. THE YO MO CONCERTO
by Rick Scott, Valerie Hennell, Harris Van Berkel and Wolfgang Mozart

INSTRUMENTAL - Mozart's "MARCH"
1. In seventeen hundred and fifty six
the music they were digging was a classical trip
people writing songs they were calling compositions
when someone came along and changed the situation
he was a kid, he was smart, he was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(Huh? What? What kind of a name is that? I don't think so!)
the first time he stepped on the stage he was a rage
he played the violin not looking at the page
everybody said he was a musical sage (Listen up! What?)
did I tell you 'bout his age? He was six! Dig it!

YO! MO! Come on, Amadeus, what you gonna play us?

INSTRUMENTAL - Mozart's "EINE KLEINE"
2. By the age of fourteen he was hot on the scene
doing his musical thing for kings and queens
he took a boat to meet the Pope
note for note he was writing, he was playing
piano, orchestra, string quartet, opera, aria, he was the best
he could play it with a horn, he could play it with a flute
do a string thing or sing (Forsooth!)
and everywhere he's playing people would be saying

YO! MO! Come on, Amadeus, what you gonna play us?

INSTRUMENTAL - Mozart's "STRING QUARTET"
3. Now times have changed and the music has too
but Mozart's art is still shining through
what I want to say is, what if Amadeus were alive to play us
a song right here right now (Right on! Right on!)
would it be hiphop, rap or reggae, punk or pop?
would he be like you and me, would be want to play with me?
(On what?) On Rick Around the Rock!

INSTRUMENTAL - Mozart's "EINE KLEINE" and "MARCH"

YO! MO! Come on, Amadeus, what you gonna play us?

So many people ask for YO MO... here's a new version of an old favourite.

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11. GET WELL CARD
by Rick Scott

Ah dearest friend
I hear you're not so well
let's just pretend
I'm the best mender
in the whole round world

That's all I have to say
throw the rest away
now I have to get this to you
and it won't go by sail
it won't go by mail
there is not jet plane will do
I take what I care
and throw it in the air
and watch the whole thing
take wing-ding
and I fall on my knees
I say thank you please
well today I will learn how to pray
today is the day that I learn how to pray

Oh dear friend
I hear you're flying so low
well here's ten thousand cranes
they will take you
anywhere you want to go

I wrote this song when the Mom of one of my friends got sick and I wanted to help her get better.

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12. WAY OUT THERE
by Rick Scott

There's five people in a wooden canoe
there's five people in a wooden canoe
what do you do when you're in a canoe
and there's one two three four five of you?

There's a wise old pelican sitting on a rock
way out there
wise old pelican sitting on a rock
way out there
with a belly full of fish is a wonderful wish
it's a pelican pelican's favourite dish
way out there

There's a great grey whale splashing around
way out there
the great grey whale is splashing around
way out there
what a wonderful sound as she splashes around
the big fat fluke flops up and down
way out there

And there's a great grey whale
way out there
Wise old pelican, pelican
way out there
then out of the blue here comes a canoe
and guess what, it's just me and you
way out there

WARNING! This song contains a dangerous grammatical error. You should say 'There ARE five people in a wooden canoe' but that's hard to sing so I used my poetic license. And five people are too many for safety in most canoes so please take care and always remember to wear your life jacket.

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