A little EP of children's songs called Tuk Tuk Safari.
Lyrics
"Dear Mrs. Humuhumunukunukuapua'a"
Dear Mrs. Humuhumunukunukuapua'a
I can't come to school today I’m sick as a dog, I'm staying home.
You're an excellent teacher all my schoolmates agree
You taught us our scales from our fins and oceans from seas
But I’m sick. YIPEE!
Doctor said:
“Play with the rays, be lazy with lobsters.
Play hide and go seek with the sharks, jump rope with the eels.
Blow bubbles in kingdoms of coral and mind the hooks and nets
or you’ll wind up on a $100 plate or a fisherman’s breakfast.”
See I’m sick you see!
Dear Mrs. Humuhumunukunukuapua'a
I can't come to school today
I'm sick as a dog.
Bye Bye!
"Silence Is Purple"
Grownups say “Silence is golden” but they’re holding back the truth from me
It really makes my dairy curdle because I know silence is purple
And a square’s not a circle
A box is a turtle
After lunch I burple
And silence is purple
Parents say “Early to bed makes you healthy, wealthy and wise” but they’ve got me confused
Because I thought that “when you snooze you lose”
If you fall you bruise
A gander is good for a goose
If both birds are in the bush
And naps are for losers
Teachers say “To error is human” but I suspect that that’s untrue
I did my homework last night and my dog ate it up in three bites
And it just isn’t right
Once bitten twice shy
The proof is in the pudding
But my math is in the canine.
Grownups say “Silence is golden” but they’re holding back the truth from me
It really makes my dairy curdle because I know silence is purple
And as you live you learn
That it’s easy come easy go
Who pays the piper calls the tune
And silence? Silence is ___.
"Old Dave Needs the Money"
Old Dave Needs the Money
Who knows the things he’ll buy
Old Dave Needs the Money
His bank account run dry
Old Dave Needs the Money
Lived life loose and fast
Old Dave Needs the Money
Old Dave needs the cash
There was a salesman had some cars Dave Mason was his name-o
D A V I D M A S O N, Dave Mason was his name-o
On the TV ran an ad for cars and trucks and vans-o
B U I C K, H O N D A, clunkers, junk and lemons
Old Dave Needs the Money
Who knows the things he’ll buy
Old Dave Needs the Money
His bank account run dry
Old Dave needs the gravy
Old Dave needs the pay
While the sun is shining
Old Dave is making hay
On his old lot had some wrecks guaranteed pre-owned
G A U R A N T double-E D guaranteed pre-owned
Old Dave Needs the Money
Who knows the things he’ll buy
Old Dave Needs the Money
His bank account run dry
Old Dave needs the cheddar
Old Dave needs the bread
Instead of stacking paper
He’s stacking debt instead
There was a salesman had some cars Dave Mason was his name-o
D A V I D M A S O N, Dave Mason he’ll take Venmo
"One Water Glass"
It takes one glass of water to wash one water glass
To wash one water glass, alas it takes a glass
So when you’re at the sink hands in the suds and splash
Consider it takes one to wash one water glass
The world is made of mud and sticks and cars and bears and buildings
The air is made of clouds and bugs and birds and planes and dust
Water is made of tears and mist and oceans on all sides
But a river may decide to leave us high and dry
When you clean your cups there’s no future or no past
Just you and that water, just you and that glass
And when this song is over there may just be a test
On math you might have guessed
One glass of water washes one water glass
"The French Dog"
I know it’s not up to me born a man or born a bee
But if given another chance I’d like to be a dog in France
In the city on the Seine my name is called “chien”
Mon ami it’d be bien if I were born again
Life on two feet is hard Lord
I’m better off on four for sure
Want to hear my name in French
From Madame get a pinch
Down every boulevard they’ve got cafes instead of yards
Where I’d gladly take a seat at Mademoiselle’s feet
In France there is a place where the ladies paint their faces
And the men don’t mind at all and neither do the dogs
Life on two feet is hard Lord
I’m better off on four for sure
Want to hear my name in French
From Madame get a pinch
It rains dogs and dogs
In the land of the French