<Standard Introduction Sequence>
*** SCIENCE ROCK *** (1978)
Weather
Music & Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens
Sung by: Bob Kalban
Animation: Gerry Ray
- Key to symbols within the lyrics
- <Introducing the greatest show on Earth: the weather!>
- Welcome everyone, it's the weather show!
- Bring your bathing suits,
- Don't forget your boots and coats!
- Folks, we guarantee
- The show that we perform
- Is never dull, if there's a lull
- It's just the calm before the storm...
- >> Watch it change from icy cold to toasty warm.
- >> And rearrange from sunny days to crazy storms.
- >> The curtain's rising, we're so glad to have you here!
- Come see a new show daily in the atmosphere!
- >> Act one: the sun!
- The sun shines down
- On field and town!
- On forest, mountain, desert, sea and snow.
- Some heat's absorbed,
- Some bounces off... (ha ha ha!)
- So here it's hot, where there it may be cold.
- >> The heated Earth heats up the air,
- >> Just like a big hot air balloon, up up it flows...
- The cooler air sneaks in below,
- It's heated too, now look out folks,
- 'Cause up it goes!
- <The sinking air is called a "high", which means it has high pressure.
- Low pressure air is on the rise, and as they move together...>
- >> Act two: the wind!
- Those lows and highs,
- They sink and rise.
- The air begins to move and flow.
- It circulates at different rates,
- And that creates the winds that blow.
- >> The highs are nice,
- >> They bring fair skies!
- Aha, but a low will often bring you clouds or rain...
- >> And when they bump,
- >> They form a front.
- >> A changing of the weather in between.
- <As the highs and lows push and shove, the weather front begins to
- move! And if a front moves into town, it means a storm may just come
- down!
- Act three: the humidity!>
- >> Because of heat, drops evaporate...
- >> From lakes and rivers, puddles, even trees.
- >> The air can fill
- >> Right to the gills
- >> With water vapour, that's humidity.
- When clouds appear,
- Rain may be near...
>> Oooohhh!
- 'Cause the vapour's cool and starting to condense.
- And if those drops...
- >> Oooohhh!
- Begin to plop...
- >> Plop, plop, plop!
- That's precipitation, folks, you all get drenched!
- That's the weather folks,
- You got your money's worth.
- Hot or cold or soakin' wet,
- Hey how lucky can you get?
- The weather show's the greatest show, the greatest show on Earth!
- <Yes sir!>
Great thanks to:
David Strauss / dss2k@virginia.edu (PsiCop P12+ & B5 Waiter, Fresh Air)
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