Weird, Wild, and Wacky Words: Lyrics and Sound File

Weird, Wild, and Wacky Words
Katherine Dines

This song is available on Hunk-Ta-Bunk-Ta GNU: A Language Adventure.

Children can learn the blue vocabulary words and expressions in the context of this song. Katherine provides definitions in her Weird, Wild, and Wacky Words Dictionary.

In prehistoric times, before they could write
People listened to the wind and the rain
They had to flee from terrible terrestrial beasts--
Reptiles you can name!
They grunted and spoke with their bodies, we think
And drew on the walls of caves
With WEIRD WILD AND WACKY WORDS
They learned to communicate!

Then heiroglyphic signs, in pyramids
Were painted 6000 years ago
What all the symbols meant to Egyptians back then
Remains a secret code.
The Romans and Greeks put some letters to sounds
And carved them into clay
They made up WEIRD WILD AND WACKY WORDS
And started what we say today

WEIRD WILD AND WACKY WORDS
Have come a long long way
Like history our language is changing everyday
Wink-a-peeps are in the past, with floshes, murfles and yerds
And other WEIRD WILD AND WACKY WORDS

Now there are 26 letters in our alphabet
Spelling everything A to Z
From aardvarks down to zyzomys--
Metamorphosis in between
Somewhere in the future past cyberspace
New words will come our way
Thanks to the WEIRD, WILD AND WACKY WORDS
That we're using everyday.

WEIRD WILD AND WACKY WORDS
Will go a long long way
Like history our techno talk is changing everyday
Bits and bytes will bite the dust and crash with megahertz
And other WEIRD WILD AND WACKY WORDS
And other WEIRD WILD AND WACKY WORDS
WEIRD WILD AND WACKY WORDS!

Katherine Dines is an award-winning songwriter, recording and teaching artist whoperforms throughout the world. To date, she has created six albums in the acclaimed series known as "Hunk*Ta*Bunk*Ta®" In addition to live concerts, she presents educational workshops for students and in-service workshops for parents and teachers. For the past two years, she has toured military bases for the United States Department of Defense in honor of "Military Child Month." Residing in Denver, Colorado, she continues to write and record material for other projects and is expanding Hunk*Ta*Bunk*Ta® into books, toys, television and other educational material. Contact information: (303) 298-7122; (303) 298-7082 (fax) www.hunktabunkta.com