A Letter to the Sea Creatures Lyrics 
by Kare Strong

1. A Letter to the Sea Creatures                                       

Hello all you creatures, of the ocean blue

I am so sorry for what’s befalling you                                  
                  
Your home is the ocean and plastic’s everywhere              
   
Surely you must feel that we do not care

We’ve got to hurry, or it won’t be  long                                                                     
     
before the gentle whales are only known in song

Our pollution’s killing, you and your kin 

Caught in abandoned nets is a struggle you can’t win                

I will stand up for you. I know some ways how

I can change how I live. I’ll begin right now

We’ve got to hurry, or it won’t be  long                                                                     
  
before the gentle whales are only known in song

All you ocean creatures, you are dear to me

Otters and puffins, starfish and manatee                                      

Our lives are connected. It matters what I do

I am just a single voice, but I will sing for you

If we will hurry, the gentle whale’s song

resounding through the oceans, will go on and on   

2. The Turkey Parade                                           

A band of clucking turkeys, is strutting down the hill                                                     
                   
dressed in twiggy overcoats and dresses made of dill
                 
They’re wearing Mole’s pinecone hats,  with scarves of dewy moss
                          
and shoes with birch bark buckles, some would say are posh

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How I wish I could join them, but I don’t have, proper clothes
       
a lichen vest,  a leafy frock, or feathers for my toes

They have no destination, nowhere they aim to go

They just like to gad about and make a lovely show                   

for all their eager forest friends who line the path they take                                         
                                                                           
and lounge around in root brown chairs and munch on acorn cake

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Their friends hoot and howl and wave, as they parade on by

How they saunter looks so fun, if only I could try

Look! Here’s comes the littlest one, bringing me a smock

and beckoning me to join, their merry making flock

I can go! I can join them now that I have proper clothes
        
and oh my gosh, feathers soft, are sprouting from my toes!

3. The Colors of the Rainbow                                                    

They are the best friends I know, the colors of the rainbow
   
They were born ages a-go-o, where lily breezes blow                              

    
When the rain says, “off I go!”, that’s the best time for a show        
     
Seven friends, mist and sun, come out for some fun

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Red is kind where’er she goes. She’s the daughter of the rose

Orange is a jolly lad. He’s almost always glad

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Yellow nestles curled up, deep within a buttercup                     
    
Green dances, green runs, in fields beneath the sun

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Blue gives clouds a roomy home, a boundless place where birds can roam       

Indigo has wild eyes, mysterious and wise

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Violet dons a velvet gown, when she goes about the town 

Seven friends, mist and sun, across the sky they run                     

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4. We Are All Neighbors                  

Whether my neighbor lives next door, or ten thousand miles away,
   
they are still my neighbor, and to them I will say:

Hola, yaa-teeh, konnichiwa, marjaba, namaste,                                                       
   
Privyet, nihao, bonjour, hello! How are you today?

Whether my neighbor’s hair is green, black, red or silver-gray,         

they are still my neighbor, and to them I will say:

Hola, yaa-teeh, konnichiwa, marjaba, namaste,          
   
Privyet, nihao, bonjour, hello! How are you today? 

Whether my neighbor goes to church, synagogue, mosque, or doesn’t pray,

they are still my neighbor, and to them I will say:

Hola, yaa-teeh, konnichiwa, marjaba, namaste,                 
  
Privyet, nihoa, bonjour, hello! How are you today?      

   
Wherever you live, whoever you are, this I will say … Hello my good neighbor, I wish you well today!

5. The Wedding of Marigold & Honeybee                            

It was the best of mornings, in every kind of way
         
For Marigold and Honeybee, it was their wedding day 
                                                 
Friends were arriving, all the dell could hold
            
arriving for the wedding of Bee and Marigold 

Everyone was silent, until kitty purred

Hers was the only sound, that any of them heard

Peacock  took from her breast, two woven feather rings 

and tossing them into the wind, she began to sing 

“Love’s not our possession, not something owned
    
Love is the greatest gift, that we have ever known 
       
So go and make a garden, cultivate it well
   
make a place inside yourselves, where love will wish to dwell”

Two hummingbirds were sprinkling, berries on the cake

Butterfly was helping Bee put on his velvet cape

Marigold’s soft petals, shown like dewy wings

Excitedly their friends stood up and they began to sing

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“We now pronounce you married. Yes. Married!” They all said       
      
Spring has dressed the meadow for your wedding bed

The earth is glowing happy, every tiny thing

because you two are married, and they began to sing

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(La la la)