YAKKO'S WORLD: AN ANIMANIACS SING-ALONG theme
YW+D : Sing with the Animaniacs
And be zany to the max
So just sit back and relax
You'll croon 'til you collapse
With Animaniacs!
Y+W : The songs we sing are wacky
Dot : And the tempos are extreme
YW+D : The lyrics are relentless
So we'll write them on the screen
Just watch the bouncing Dot
And drink plenty of caffeine
Sing a verse with Hello Nurse
And make your parents scream
We're Animaniacs
Dot is cute and Yakko yaks
Wakko packs away the snacks
While Bill Clinton plays the sax
We're Animaniacs!
Y+W : Come join the Warner Brothers
Dot : And the Warner Sister, Dot
YW+D : Just for fun we'll take your tongue
And tie it in a knot
If you don't sing along with us
We'll put you on the spot
Let's all break loose; there's no excuse
Just give it all you've got
(instrumental chorus)
Y+W : (spoken) Helloooo, nurse!
(instrumental verse)
Cast : We're Animaniacs
We have pay-or-play contracts
We're zany to the max
There's baloney in our slacks
We're Animanie
Totally insaney
Wakko: Chicken chow meiny
Dot : The rain in Spainy
Yakko: Citizen Kaney
Dot : Shirley MacLainey
Yakko: Andromeda Strainy
YW+D : Cockamamie
Dot : Here's the show's namey
Cast : Animaniacs!
Those are the facts!
Transcribed by Brendan Dunn and Jay Maynard
TRAVELING ANIMANIACS from the Yakko's World album
Music by Richard Stone. Lyrics by Richard Stone and Julie Bernstein.
YW+D : It's time for Animaniacs
And we're really making tracks
Let's go all around the earth
From Alaska down to Perth
We're travelin' maniacs
Come join us on our journey
As we race around the globe
You may meet an attorney
Or an Eskimo named Joe
We'll go to Bora Bora
Or maybe Kokomo
We promise not to bore ya
But of course you never know
We're travelin' maniacs
From Bombay to Halifax
Y+D : Board a bus or take a yak
Or just jump on Wakko's back
And don't forget the snacks
YW+D : From Canada to Paraguay
And places in between
From India to Mozambique
You'll see just what we mean
It's fun to visit countries
That you have never seen
But if you drink the water there
You might turn slightly green
We're travelin' maniacs
With our knapsacks on our backs
We'll leave raisins in our tracks
From the trail mix in our slacks
We're Animanee
Totally insane-y
Dot : Let's not miss our plane-y
YW+D : Animaniacs!
Bring your backpacks!
Transcribed by David Orozco
A QUAKE! A QUAKE! from the Yakko's World album
Music and lyrics by Randy Rogel.
Music adapted from The Happy Farmer by Robert Schumann.
These lyrics are different than the originals, which appeared later. See them in the listing from Episode 70.
Yakko: It's a quiet, peaceful night
The moon is shining bright
Giving not a hint of what's in store
A few hours before morning
Without a single warning
Something strange begins to move the floor
A quake, a quake
The house begins to shake
You're bouncing 'cross the floor
And watching all your dishes break
You're sleeping; there's a quake
You're instantly awake
You're leaping out of bed
And shouting "Oh for heaven's sake!"
I ran outside with neighbors
Their faces full of shocks
That's because I'm standing there
In nothing but my socks
W+D : Oops!
Yakko: A quake, a quake
This must be a mistake
Just feel the ground
Go up and down
Won't someone hit the brake?
A quake, a quake
Oh, what a mess they make
The bricks, the walls
The chimney falls
Destruction in its wake
I did not have insurance
I called them from the scene
And suddenly I'm listening
To an answering machine
Say "Too late, too late
You shouldn't ought to wait
'Cause now you're stuck
We wish you luck
Here comes a six-point-eight!"
Whose fault, whose fault?
Blame it on the fault
'Cause Mister Richter
Can't predict her
Kicking our asphalt
Seismologists all say
Tectonic plates are in between
An encroaching crustal mantle
Yeah, so what the heck's that mean?
It means a quake, a quake
W+D : Oh really, yeah, no fake?
We kind of had that feeling
When the ground began to shake
Yakko: And so we wait
Resign ourselves to fate
Because our lawn
Is sitting on
A continental plate
We shivered through a blizzard
Went swimming in a flood
Then we blew off a hurricane
And now we hear a thud
Of a quake, a quake
How much more can we take?
We thought that we had seen it all
But this one takes the cake
The dirt, the rocks
Those crazy aftershocks
It's just the planet
Moving granite
Several city blocks
*YW+D: Now the town is falling down
* While the ground
* Moves around
* We won't let it get us down
* Get beneath the door frame
Yakko: A quake, a quake
It's time to pull up stake
Dot : The worst is over
Y+W : We don't buy it
We're fed up
We can't deny it
We just want some peace and quiet
YW+D : So we're moving to Beirut!
* - sung to "London Bridge"
Transcribed by David Orozco
THE HELLO SONG from the Yakko's World album
Music by Julie Bernstein, Peter Hastings and Paul Rugg.
Lyrics by Paul Rugg.
Yakko: There's a word in every language
A word that you should know
A word that means you're friendly
A word used high and low.
Though the way to say it varies
Most everywhere you go
Its meaning never changes
And that word is...
YW+D : ...Hello!
YW+D : Hello!
Hello!
Hello! Hello! Hello!
Hello! Hello! Hello! Hello!
Hello! Hello!
Yakko: In Germany it's "guten Tag"
Which also means "good day"
"Ni hao" is exactly how
Hello sounds in Taipei.
In Portugal it's "ola"
In Arabic, "salem"
Saying "zravo" means hello
In Macedonian.
It's "aloha" in Hawaii
They say "geia sou" in Greece
In Israel the word's "shalom"
And that means "peace".
The Italians have "buon giorno"
The Viennese, "servus"
When you're at the Eiffel Tower
Just smile and say "salut!"
YW+D : Hello!
Hello!
Hello!
Hello!
Hello! Hello! Hello! Hello!
Hello! Hello!
Yakko: In Nepal they say "namaste"
In Sweden, "goddag"
In Thailand, "sabai dee roo"
"Dobri den" in Prague.
In the Spanish language, "hola"
The Netherlands, it's "dag"
In Japanese, "konnichi-wa"
And "hey" in Little Rock.
When you say "u hali gani"
Swahili is the tongue
In Russian it's "zdrahstvooyteh"
Which sounds way better sung.
If you're ever in Korea
"Ahnyung hahsay yo!"
And in some parts of Brooklyn
Hello is just plain "yo!"
Y+W : Hello!
Dot : Hello!
Y+W : Hello!
Dot : Hello...
Y+W : Hello!
Dot : Hello??
Y+W : Hello!
Dot : Hello!!
YW+D : Hello! Hello! Hello! Hello!
Hello! Hello!
YW+D : Though the way to say it varies
Most everywhere you go
Its meaning never changes
Hello!
Hello!!
Hello!!!
G'bye!
Transcribed by David Orozco and Andy Diaz
SEVERAL DROPS OF RAIN from the Yakko's World album
Music and lyrics by Randy Rogel.
Y+W: It's raining; It's pouring
Don't sing a song that's boring...
Dot: There's a plain up in Maine
Where there're tiny drops of rain
Forming ripples in a puddle that they make.
And that puddle grows beyond
Into something called a pond
Spreading outward 'til it turns into a lake.
When that lake springs a leak
Then it forms a little creek
Which goes rushing down and turns into a stream.
And the water keeps on flowing
So that trees can keep on growing
In a pattern that is showing nature's scheme.
And every flower, every weed
Get the water that they need
From that little tiny stream which trickles by.
Y+W: And in the swamp it picks up germs
From bacteria and worms
And if you drink it you'll get really sick and die.
Dot: Hey, this is my song!
Dot: The stream joins a river
And goes racing to deliver
All the water as it rushes to the sea.
Then it flows into a bay
Where it's quickly swept away
To the ocean, filled with motion, swirling free.
Then the sun shines on down
Putting heat upon the ground
And evaporating mist into the air.
And the water starts to rise
As it lifts into the skies
And soon there is rain, on that plain, up in Maine.
Y+W: And that rain
Is a pain
So why don't they build a drain?
Dot: For water has position
Which is always in transition
From the mountains to the oceans to the sky.
Y+W: And it's something you can drink
Or that you spit into the sink
If you control the way it goes
You can shoot it out your nose
If you try
Dot: And now you both can say goodbye!
Hyah! [throws something which shatters]
Transcribed by David Orozco
I'LL TAKE AN ISLAND from the Yakko's World album
Music by Julie Bernstein. Lyrics by John P. McCann.
Wakko: I'll take an island
Staten or Ireland
Japan and Cyprus too
With water on four sides
Not three
Like peninsulas do
Yeah!
I'll take Greenland
It's not a mean land
It's east of Baffin Bay
And Easter Island's
Got heads
Big as a Circle-K
Crete belongs to Greece
While Jamaica has Kingston Bay
Brando lives in Fiji they say
And Cuba's in the water
Doing what it oughta
Old Indonesia
Is bound to please ya
Stop by for Java and cream
While the Philippines
Got islands
Coming out of their jeans
Take it, boys!
Play, magic fingers, play!
Ooh, swing it!
Let's hear it for the band, folks!
All right!
You keep the landmass
I'll take a Sandwich
Island near the cold South Pole
If you're looking for me
Try an island
Anywhere on the globe
Transcribed by David Orozco
THERE'S ONLY ONE OF YOU from the Yakko's World album
Music and lyrics by Randy Rogel.
Yakko: There are fifty thousand different kinds of animals
And there are fifty thousand more that used to be
There's a hundred million ants
And half a billion plants
And a lot of fish down underneath the sea
There's gotta be a couple million spiders
A hundred-fifty million butterflies and bees
And a bunch of different mammals
Like those elephants and camels
And approximately fifty billion trees
Y+W : But there is only one of you
That makes you special
You stand out among the other things; it's true
YW+D : Yes, the universe is large
And whoever is in charge
Made lots of things, but only one of you
Yakko: A one, a two, a three, and a four
A thousand and a million and a billion or more
There's a trillion drops of water in the ocean
And a billion trillion molecules of air
There are insects here en masse
And a trillion blades of grass
And a thousand strands in every head of hair
A lot of little grains of dirt make up this planet
A billion atoms on the head of every pin
A million birds that all can fly
A trillion stars up in the sky
And all the many different people there have been
YW+D : But there is only one of you
That makes you special
Yes, there is nothing else exactly like you are
'Cause you're unique and you're terrific
And you're kind of real specific
'Cause there's no one else the same
As the person you became
Wakko: In fact, you're kind of weird
Yakko: But we like you just the same
YW+D : 'Cause you're the only one of you there are
Ba ba doop mm
Ba ba doop mm
Ba ba doo ba!
Transcribed by David Orozco
Lyrics from BUBBA BO BOB BRAIN readalong album
Music by Craig Bartok. Lyrics by Tony Haynes.
For lyrics from the television version
see the entry for Animaniacs Episode 34.
Bubba Bo Bob Brain
Pinky: Yee haw, hee haw, this world is like a see saw
You're up and you're down!
Sho' nuff, it's true stuff, yes, one little lab mouse
Can turn your world around!
Brain: I can do it -- Ye-ess!
I can flush your troubles down the drain!
Who am I?
I'm Bubba Bo Bob Brain!
(Bubba, Bubba Bo Bob Brain)
(Bubba, Bubba Bo Bob Brain)
(Bubba, Bubba Bo Bob Brain)
Brain: I've got more power than a chainsaw chain
Who am I?
Bubba Bo Bob Brain!
Pinky: Ooh wee, howdy,
When things get much too rowdy
Here's what you do
(Here's what you do)
Brain: Call me! No joke,
I'll ride in on that cowpoke
I won't let life hogtie you!
(Hogtie you)
I'll stand beside you
Through the snow, the sunshine and the rain!
Who am I?
I'm Bubba Bo Bob Brain! Ye-ess!
(Bubba, Bubba Bo Bob Brain)
(Bubba, Bubba Bo Bob Brain)
I'll keep chugging on like the Mystery Train
Who am I?
I'm Bubba Bo Bob Brain!
(Bubba, Bubba Bo Bob Brain) [repeat and fade]
Pinky: (spoken) Egad! Now then who's the one you call?
Brain: Bubba Bo Bob Brain
Pinky: I can't hear you, y'all
Brain: Bubba Bo Bob Brain!
Pinky: That's right! Bubba Bing Bang Boom Shakalaka Brain, hahahaha!
Brain: That's Bubba Bo Bob Brain
Pinky: That's what I said: Bubba Be Bop a Lula Boom Shakalaka Brain
Brain: It's Bubba Bo Bob Brain
Pinky: Whatever, hahaha NARF!
Brain: Ye-ess!
---
A Lab Mouse Will Take Over the World
Pinky: Gather around, cowpokes. I've got a story to tell you!
Pinky: Every day I wake up
It's the same old thing
A bell goes off inside my head,
Ring a ding ding-a-ding!
And I'm reminded of a Duke, a Prince, and an Earl
And that a lab mouse...
Brain: ...will take over the world!
Pinky: (spoken) Oh, well done, Brain.
Brain: Thank you, Pinky.
Pinky: Of Memphis, Paris, Nashville
Oh, and Aruba,
Brain: I'll be Chairman, Boss, the Big Cheese
And Grand Poo-bah!
I will achieve this, man, woman, boy and girl,
Pinky: Egad! A lab mouse...
Brain: ...will take over the world!
Pinky: (spoken) You sound like Johnny Cash, Brain.
Brain: I walk the line, Pinky.
Brain: Into your minds this thought I will broadcast,
Not rabbit, duck, or polar bear, nor squirrel,
But someone who was born to be your ruler
A lab mouse will take over the world!
Pinky: (spoken) Yee-haw! Watch me pick, Brain!
Brain: It's a hootenanny! What IS a hootenanny, Pinky?
Pinky: (laughs) Why, Brain, you're in one!
Brain: Yee-haw!
Pinky: Oh Brain, may I do the bridge again?
Brain: Ye-ess!
Pinky: Right, here I go!
Pinky: Into your minds this thought I will broadcast,
Not rabbit, duck, or polar bear, nor squirrel -- NARF!
But someone who was born to be your ruler
A lab mouse will take over the world!
Brain: So Partner, Bosom Buddy,
Pinky: Zeke, and Cousins
Brain: The Three Amigos,
Pinky: And the Dirty Dozen
Brain: The truth is timeless
Like my twang and Minnie Pearl
Pinky: And, yes, a lab mouse...
Brain: ...will take over the world!
Pinky: Don't you know
P+B : A lab mouse will take over the world!
Transcribed by Bryan Chaney
Lyrics from ANIMANIACS GAME PACK!
by William Gusky and Bruce Zimmerman
Theme
It's time for Animaniacs We hope your hard drive stays intact If this program starts to crash Give your CPU a whack We're Animaniacs Boot up the Warner Brothers and the Warner Sister, Dot The developers would like to buy a really snazzy yacht They put all kinds of games in here To tie your mind in knots And zany animations That will leave you seeing spots. We're Animaniacs They transformed us to bitmaps If you move your mouse to click on things You'll force us to react We're Animaniacs Look at Wakko as he tries to pull your processor apart ** And Yakko's burning Random Access Memory with a spark ** Dot just grabbed your cursor She wants you to restart We kidnaped all the programmers They think that they're so smart. We're Animaniacs Play at work and you'll get sacked If the artwork is too slack Well, they licensed us to hacks We're Animanie Totally insaney Monitor's in flamey Animaniacs! ** - These lines originally were written as: Look at Yakko as he tries to pull your processor apart And Wakko's burning Random Access Memory with a fart ---I'm a Swingin' Gal
Yakko: Golf? How dull can we get?
Dot : Dull? Au contraire!
The game of golf is a metaphor for life itself.
Each hole represents a challenge; each swing,
a defining moment; each--
Yakko: C'mon, Dot. Enough of this psychological mumbo-jumbo.
Wakko: Yeah, sing the song already.
Dot : I can swing with the swingers
And I'm havin' a ball
I always go for the green
Yeah, I want it all
My clothes fit to a tee
I'm a swingin' gal, that's me.
Y+W : Even though life can be rough
Our sister Dot's had the right stuff
Never has her head in the sand
Dot : Hey, let me tell my story first-hand!
I can swing with the swingers
And I'm havin' a ball
I never putter around
Yeah, I want it all
I'm as cute as I can be
I'm a swingin' gal, that's me.
I'm as cute as I can be
I'm a swingin' gal, that's me.
Wakko: (spoken) Hey, what's a metaphor, anyway?
Yakko: I dunno, but I never met a phor I didn't like.
Transcribed by Ron O'Dell and Linda Pang