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*** SCIENCE ROCK *** (1978)
Electricity
Music & Lyrics: Bob Dorough
Sung by: Zachary Sanders
Animation: Kim & Gifford Productions
- Key to symbols within the lyrics
- When you're in the dark,
- And you want to see
- You need uh...
- >> Electricity, electricity!
- Flip that switch
- And what do you get?
- You get uh...
- >> Electricity, electricity!
- Every room
- Can now be lit
- With just uh...
- >> Electricity, electricity!
- Where do you think
- It all comes from?
- This powerful...
- >> Electricity, electricity!
- Through high wires
- To here it comes,
- They're bringing the...
- >> Electricity, electricity!
- Every building
- Must be wired
- To use it uh...
- >> Electricity, electricity!
- Power plants
- Most all use fire
- To make it uh...
- >> Electricity, electricity!
- Burnin' fuel
- And using steam
- They generate...
- >> Electricity, electricity!
- Turn that generator
- By any means.
- You're makin' uh...
- >> Electricity, electricity!
- <A generator is a machine that contains a powerful magnet that
- creates a magnetic field. When wires are rotated rapidly through
- this field, then a current of electricity is produced. Now: if
- we only had a superhero who could stand here and turn the
- generator real fast, then we wouldn't need to burn so much fuel
- - heh- to make...> Electricity!
- Benjamin Franklin
- Flyin' his kite
- Was searchin' for...
- >> Electricity, electricity!
- He knew that it had something
- To do with lightning
- It's all uh...
- >> Electricity, electricity!
- Rubbin' a comb
- With wool or fur
- Will give you a charge of...
- Static... Electricity!
- >> [Electricity, electricity!]
- Strokin' a cat
- To make it pur,
- You're buildin' up static
- Electricity!
- >> [Electricity, electricity!]
- <Electricity at rest is called "static electricity", like in the
- winter, wearing a heavy coat, you get a shock off the doorknob.
- Or you scrape across a carpet, and sneak up on your very best
- friend, and zap him on the ear with a shock of...> Electricity!
- Current flowing
- To and fro
- Makes a circuit of...
- >> Electricity, electricity!
- Voltage is the pressure
- That makes it go,
- It's pushin' the...
- >> Electricity, electricity!
- Watts will tell you
- Just how much
- You'll be using the...
- >> Electricity, electricity!
- Powerful stuff so
- Watch that plug.
- It's potent...
- >> Electricity, electricity!
- Electricty!
- >> [Electricity, electricity!]
- Electricty!
- >> Electricity, electricity!
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