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Kid Pan Alley: Music

Wake Up

(Kid Pan Alley classroom recording)
2007-03-03
B y Paul Reisler, Terri Allard & 5th grade, Rappahannock Elementary
The Phoenix flies with fire on his wings
Shaking off the ashes, he rises as he sings
FFFFF (fire sound) “Wake up, Mr. Sun
Come out of your cave, a new day has begun.”

What makes you think that you can sleep in?
Without you here we’d have no oxygen.
If you sleep all day and sleep all night
We’d have to live in darkness there’d be no light.

Chorus:
We covered up the sun with all our pollution
In our darkest times we need a good solution
The seas are rising and glaciers are sinking
There’s a hole in the ozone – what were we thinking?
Wake up, Mr. Sun. Wake up, everyone!

Apollo might be the god of the sun
But even he can’t fix what we’ve done
The phoenix may die and come back again
Who will save the earth for our children?

Chorus:
(Wake up, Mr. Sun. Wake up, everyone! 2X)