CHORUS:
C F
Bats eat bugs, they don’t eat people,
C G
Bats eat bugs, they don’t fly in your hair,
C F
Bats eat bugs, they eat insects for dinner,
C G
That’s what they’re doing up there
Coyotes eat rabbits, they don’t eat people,
Coyotes eat rabbits, ‘cause you’re too big to bite,
Coyotes eat rabbits, they eat rabbits for dinner,
That’s why they’re out in the night.
Chorus
Snakes eat mice, they don’t eat people,
Snakes eat mice, that’s why they’re on the ground,
Snakes eat mice, they eat rodents for dinner,
And they don’t want you hanging around.
Chorus
Vultures eat dead things, they don’t eat people,
Vultures eat dead things, ‘cause you don’t smell right,
Vultures eat dead things, they eat dead things for dinner.
So you better take a shower tonight.
Chorus
Bears eat berries, they don’t eat people,
Bears eat berries, they don’t eat you or me,
Bears eat berries, and they might steal your dinner,
So you better hang it high in a tree.
Chorus
Nothing out there wants to eat you,
Nothing out there wants to make you its meal,
Nothing out there eats people for dinner,
‘Cause they know how sick they would feel.
CHORUS:
Mammals, Mammals, Mammals everywhere
Mammals, Mammals, they’re flying in the air,
Mammals, Mammals, they’re swimming in the sea,
Mammals, Mammals, just like you and me
Mammals like camels come by land or sea,
They can sky high in the forest canopy
Could be a lion or a manatee,
They feed off what is called a mammary
CHORUS
Bats are mammals even though they fly up in the sky,
Finding their prey with a sonar-like eye,
Echolocation helps to guide them in the night
Just a vibration creates a sense of sight
CHORUS
I know some mammals that are square pegs
Funky southern mammals that lay eggs
I see you laughin’, but I wouldn’t kid ya
They’re the duck billed platypus and the spiny echidna
CHORUS
Let me tell you ‘bout some mammals in the ocean,
Dolphins, whales, and seals are causing commotion,
Trying to get a bite so that they can eat,
Turning fat to blubber, to insulate their heat
CHORUS
Attention! Alert! There are mammals all around us,
Hairy, smelly mammals, they’ve got the place surrounded,
So turn to your neighbor, say “I’m a mammal too”
And throw your hands up if you’re in the mammal crew
Chorus:
On the loose to climb a mountain
On the loose where I am free
On the loose to live my life
The way I think my life should be
For I’ll only have a moment, and a whole world left to see
I’ll be searching for tomorrow, On the Loose.
Have you ever seen a sunrise turn the sky completely red?
Have you slept beneath the moon and stars, a pine bough for your bed?
Do you sit and talk with friends although no word is ever said?
Then you’re just like me and you’ve been, On the Loose.
CHORUS
There’s a trail that I’ll be hiking just to see where it might go
Many places yet to visit, and many people yet to know
And in following my dreams I will live and I will grow
On a trail that’s waiting out there, On the Loose.
CHORUS
So in search of love and laughter I’ll be traveling ‘cross this land
Never sure of where I’m going, for I haven’t any plan
But in time when you are ready, come and join me, take my hand
And together we’ll share life out, On the Loose.
CHORUS
CHORUS:
IT….. Starts with “S” and it ends with a “T”
It come out of you and it comes out of me
I know what your thinking but don’t call it that
Let’s be scientific and call it “SCAT”
A squirrel ate a nut
It digested in its gut
It came out of it but
It was a piece of scat!
It was a piece of WHAT? (Piece of Scat!)
A coyote ate a bunny
It digested in its tummy
And it came of really runny
It was a piece of scat!
It was a piece of WHAT? (Piece of Scat!)
CHORUS
Look up in the sky
A bird is flying high
Oh! It landed in (someone)’s eye!
It was a piece of scat!
It was a piece of WHAT? (Piece of Scat!)
Bear ate a berry
It was kinda hairy
And it came out real scary
It was a piece of scat!
It was a piece of WHAT? (Piece of Scat!)
CHORUS
You can call poo
You can manure too.
But here at Outdoor School.
(we call it) Piece of scat!
It was a piece of WHAT? (Piece of Scat!)
You can find it on the ground
Sometime in a mound
It usually colored brown
It was a piece of scat!
It was a piece of WHAT? (Piece of Scat!)
Chorus
MAKE UP YOUR OWN VERSE
By Steve Van Zandt
CHORUS:
Am C D
*The FBI……..whenever something dies.
Am C D
Oh, the FBI…..is there on the scene.
Am C D
The FBI………is working overtime.
Am C D Am
Oh, the FBI, to pick those bones clean.
C D
FUNGUS! …… **FUNGUS!, BACTERIA!……**BACTERIA!
Am C Em Am
INVERTEBRATES!….**INVERTEBRATES!, the F B I.
Am
There’s fungus all among us and its breaking things down,
C D Am
Returning nutrients into the fertile ground.
Millions of mycelium underground that why,
C D Am
When you hold a handful of the earth you hold the F B I.
Chorus
There are billions of bacteria in the that soil over there,
Microscopic life is in all water, land, and air.
You should know that they are there, but they’re too small for your eye,
These are the secrete agents of the FBI.
Chorus
Insects, bugs, and slugs and worms are working night and day,
The invertebrate crew, are special agents of decay.
To remove whatever’s rotten they will hop, crawl, hide or fly,
Enforcing nature’s law they are the FBI.
Chorus
Lay down very still in the duff and learn their ways
Lift up rotten log and you will surly be amazed.
Go creeping through the forest learn to see and be a spy,
In search of evidence of the FBI.
Chorus
* group sings “The FBI”
** group call and response, sing section 2x
