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If you think bigger is better
Then you might want to think again
Cos if less is more, you can’t ignore
That small gets ten out of ten
Did you know the world around us
Is much more than one big thing?
It’s a lot of little things joined up together
That make me want to sing
Appreciate the small things, the small things
Appreciate the small
Appreciate the small things, the small things
Appreciate them all
Well, it it’s not the size that matters
Does matter have a size at all?
It gets less and less ‘til nothing’s left
Like a set of stacking dolls
From all the tiny little critters
To all the good deeds you have done
They add up to something bigger
And then you get the whole in one
So appreciate the small things, the small things
Appreciate the small
Just appreciate the small things, the small things
Appreciate them all
Granules of sand make up the beach
Beetles and ants, there’s more than one each
Think of the littlest thing you can fathom
Is it a molecule or an atom or maybe a quark?
What the…!?
Appreciate the small things, the small things
Appreciate the small
Just appreciate the small things, the small things
Appreciate them all
You don’t need a billion dollars and a Lamborghini or twenty-million followers in bikinis
Appreciate the small things, the small things
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Micro Biome
03:30
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Micro Biome
Oh, what have you done to me?
We’re all entangled together
In one living community
Micro Biome
You’re a key to my survival
From the deep dark of my insides
To my ocean of saliva
Microorganisms
All over my system
I’ve got a suspicion
That we’re one and the same
Oh, Micro Biome
What have you done to me?
Micro biome
This might sound kind of insane
Yeah well, maybe I’m crazy
But it’s like you’re some kind of giant brain
Oh, micro biome
I don’t know if we’re one or a hundred trillion and two
Cos you just make up my whole world
So I gotta be good to you
Microorganisms
All over my system
I’ve got a suspicion
That we’re one and the same
We’re one and the same
Yeah, we’re one and the same
Oh, we’re one and the same
We’re one and the same
Micro Biome
Micro Biome
Micro Biome
Your-cro Biome
Our-cro Biome
Macro Biome
Micro Biome
Micro Biome
Micro Biome
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Easy on the Bees
02:35
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Buzz, buzz
Bees, bees
Buzz, buzz
Please, please
Buzz, buzz
Bees, bees
Buzz, buzz
Please please, please
Please go easy on our friends the bees
They’re extremely esteemed colleagues
Striving to survive in their home in the hive
And we need bees to bee alive
Well, leave the weeds and trees growing down the street
So we can please all the bees getting down to eat
Because life depends on these little friends
And we need bees to keep it sweet
Buzz, buzz
Buzz, buzz
Oh, well it wouldn’t be funny
If there wasn’t any honey
And all the flowers would be all be sad
Even if it was sunny with no bees
So please
Please go easy on our friends the bees
Cos we all stand on their tiny feet
The World depends on these little friends
And we need bees to keep it sweet
Keep it sweet
If you want happy plants
Keep it sweet
Put on your baggy pants
Keep it sweet
Do the Waggle dance
Buzz, buzz
Buzz, buzz
Buzz, buzz
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I love carrots in the morning
I love carrots in the eve
I love carrots in a salad or a sandwich
I love carrots from their roots to their leaves
Well, I love carrots that are homegrown
Cos they are oh so crunchy sweet
Well, I love carrots, but do you?
Yeah, I love carrots!
They’re just so, so good to eat
Well there’s red carrots, yellow carrots, purple carrots, orange
I find wild carrots when I’m going for a forage
Fresh, baked, steamed, mashed or grated on my porridge
I love carrots, hey!
Well I love carrots that are stumpy,
Twisty, fat or thin or long
What can I say? I love carrots!
So do I, I love carrots!
Well, why don’t we play a carrot in this song?
Hey, check it out, he’s playing a carrot!
Yep, that’s a carrot!
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Soil Food Web
02:18
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There’s a whole world down there
Down where? I’ll tell you where
Right under your feet where the land and plants meet
It’s the Soil Food Web and it’s a bangin’ good time
Come on down underground and meet some friends of mine
I’m flatulent, I mean, a flagellate!
I've got this whippy tail, can you imagine it?
I got a motion promotion in the primordial ocean
To get me swimmin around, now I’m smashing it!
I’m Amoeba, I’m a-you-ba
A shapeshifter
Look, I’m a tuba!
I slip around like a blob doing my job
And sometimes I’m slime-mould with the mob
I’m the Arch-Nemetode, you get bad rap
When you’re nothin but a tube that moves and unattractive
Not a villain, just a bit of killin’ with four hundred quintillion siblings
What’s wrong with that?
Fungus saprophyte
And Bacteria’s back, alright!
They be eating and breeding and moving dancing and creeping
It’s like a party going on right under your nose
If you know some folks with a microscope
Get ‘em to show you the ropes and check the life below
It’s the soil food web
What?
Get it in your head
And your garden bed
Alright!
The soil food web
Huh?
That’s what I said
And it’s how we’re fed
Come and take a ride on the nutrient cycle
It’s always breaking down, but that’s what it’s like yo!
It’s kind of the point! If it didn’t pretty soon
We’d have junk piled up all the way to the moon!
Don’t let anyone tell you that compost ain’t boss
Without it life would stop
Like, actually
So cover the soil with mulch, shade and plants
And discover the joy of the soil food web dance
It’s the soil food web
What?
Get it in your head
And your garden bed
Alright!
The soil food web
Huh?
That’s what I said
And it’s how we’re fed
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Would the ocean be embarrassed
Every time the sea weed?
I don’t think she feels that callous
Toward the likes of me
Well, let me introduce myself
I’m hangin off the continental shelf
Just come on down when you sea kelp
And ask for Al G
I pump out more air than the trees
And filter all the scum
Some say I’m the reason there’s life on Earth
Well, you’re welcome
Now. the whales keep on beaching
That’s no place for a large water mammal
And the coral keeps on bleaching
Well, the fish don’t like it when the colour’s too mellow
But I’ll just keep on preaching the goodness
of Al G
I’m talking bout the Original Green
Al G
Keeping the water and the airways clean
Al G, that’s me
He’s the Original Green
Al G
The O.G. is the Al G
The Al G is the O.G
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7. |
Earthworm Bill
01:44
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Remember me, Earthworm Bill?
I ate your lunch when you’d had your fill
And put it back in the ground, that is my skill
To help your garden grow
Mmm, hey, Earthworm Bill, Earthworm Bill
Remember me when you have a spill
Earthworm Bill, Earthworm Bill
I help your garden grow
Just keep me damp and keep me cool
Leave me in the dark with your scraps for fuel
And I will be the sharpest tool
To help your garden grow
Yeah, I’m Earthworm Bill, hey! Earthworm Bill
I eat all day while I dig and till
Earthworm Bill, Earthworm Bill
I help your garden grow
I have five hearts, so I got all the love
But I keep it down underground, not above
Playing games of push and shove
To Help your garden grow
I’m Earthworm Bill, hey! Earthworm Bill
Helping the soil really gives me a thrill
Earthworm Bill, that’s me! Earthworm Bill
I help your garden grow
Yeah I help your garden grow
Ooh, I help your garden grow
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8. |
Thank you for the Food
01:57
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Thank you, thank you, love and gratitude
Love and gratitude, love love and gratitude
I’m so very grateful for this food
Grateful for the food, grate-grateful for the food
Food is good, food is great
I love it when it turns up on my plate
So I really wanna thank everyone who made it
And give them a shout out before I ate it
Thank you, thank you, love and gratitude
Love and gratitude, love love and gratitude
I’m so very grateful for this food
Grateful for the food, grate-grateful for the food
From everybody who made the food
And everybody who got the food
To the hand that picked the food
And the land that grew the food
The living thing that was the food
And the pollinator of the food
And thank you, whoever discovered the food
And first fell in love with the food
Thank you, thank you, love and gratitude
Love and gratitude, love love and gratitude
I’m so very grateful for this food
Grateful for the food, grate-grateful for the food
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