The Monty Harper Songbook

Lyrics to 110 songs by Monty Harper. Last update: 11/20/07.

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Featured Song: The Wind Energy Song

Songs Listed by Title

All My Friends: Drug-free friends
Alphabet Rag: Do you know your alphabet - backwards?

Back Off!: This song attacks tobacco company advertising aimed at kids.
Big Red Fire Truck: I'm a big red fire truck. I save lives - that's what I do!
Big World After All: A celebration of cultural diversity.
Birthday Boogaloo: A rock & roll alternative to "Happy Birthday."
Blast Into Books: Verses celebrate Star Wars and Star Trek - great in the movies, but even better in books!
Books, Ahoy!: Sail away aboard three great books: Charlotte's Web, Winnie the Pooh, and Peter Pan.
Boom Town: Celebrates the excitement of building a turn of the century Oklahoma oil boom town.
The Brainiacs: A family discovers their genius after turning off the TV.

Can It Be Over?: The time has come to say goodbye. How can it be over so soon?
Can You Guess?: Can you guess what I am? It's like a Blue's Clues mystery in a song.
The Cat Came Back: A new version of an old folk song, with a surprise ending.
Cowboy Dreams: Let's be cowboys together, pardner!
Creepy Crawly Party Time: It's a bug party - at your house!

Diving in the Deep Blue Sea: An underwater adventure - this song was a winner in the 2003 Unisong contest!
Dog Books: What do you do if your parents won't let you get the pet you want?

Eleanor Gerbil: The tale of a lonely boy and his gerbil, inspired by Eleanor Rigby
Escape of the Bugs: This is a reprise of "The Kid Who Ate a Bug" on the Jungle Junk! CD - the bugs are heading out!
Everybody Wants One: I knew I had to have one - because I saw it on TV!
Everything is Changing: Nothing stays the same.

Fifty Ways to Say No: What would you say if offered drugs in different situations?
Freedom Shines on America: Written during a workshop with fourth graders at Washington Grade Center in Ada, OK.
Fred's Frog Flippy: A watched frog never hops!
Frog Song: What happens if you kiss a frog, she turns into a princess, and she shoves you?

Get a Clue: Got questions? Get a clue at your library!
Gimme Vegetables: I'm a lean mean green bean eating machine!
Good Clean Fun: This song is an advertisement for good clean alcohol-free fun.
Grandma's House Tonight: A wild car trip around the country to Grandma's House. This is a chain song - each chorus gets longer and longer as each verse adds a new character.
The Great Green Squishy Mean Bibliovore: A cross between a bookworm and a dinosaur...
The Gentlemen Are Dancing on Their Toes: A circle of puns!

Hanging Out With Heroes at the Library, original version: It's a foot stomping, rope swinging barrel of fun - can you guess the hero in each verse?
Hanging Out With Heroes at the Library, Detectives Version: It's a foot stomping, rope swinging barrel of fun - can you guess the detective in each verse?
Horny Toad: A nonfiction song - everything you wanted to know and more about the Texas Horned Lizard, or Horny Toad as we like to call 'em around here.
How Many Days?: Dedicated to Monty's wife, Lisa, on their first anniversary - your basic mathematical love song.
Howdy Song: How many languages can you say hello in?
Hummingbird Hum: Bright little jewel of the backyard birds.

I Can't Follow You There: The singer's best friend is becoming a drug user.
I Go Bananas: Go bananas for bananas!
I Took My Dragon For a Walk: Not exactly a great idea!
I'd Sooner Read: Written for the 1996 Oklahoma reading campaign of the same name.
If Kids Ruled the World: What a wacky, wacky world it would be!
I'm Not Bald: Really, I'm not - no, really!
Imagine That: I built a city on a cloud in the sky...
It's Hard to Love a Reptile: ...when you know she don't love you back!

Jungle Junk: Way up in the treetops talking to Tarzan - an upbeat nonsense song featuring plenty of wacky animals.
Junior Detectives Club: Observation, Deduction, and Sheer Determination will lead us to succeed at being super-slueths!

K-Street Rag: An instrumental - ragtime piano.
The Kid Who Ate a Bug: Yes, it's true, he ate a living bug! And the bugs are multiplying...

The Legend of Old Rip: In Eastland, TX, citizens enshrined a live horny toad within the cornerstone of the courthouse. Legend says he came out alive after 41 years!
Library Bookaneers: Hey, ho, whadoya know? Head for the high seas with these rollicking library adventurers!
Lisa Lee Elizabeth: This poor girl has more names than you can count on all your fingers and all your toes put together!
Loose Tooth: It's funny, it's gross - it's the worst way to loose a tooth!
Love This Baby: I don't wait for the sun to shine, I love this baby all the time!

Magical Madcap Tour: A goofy trip around the continents.
Meet the Planets: A whirlwind tour of the Solar System.
Mixed Up Wacky Song: This is a song about everything - this is a song about me and you.
My Brother Stuck a Bean Up His Nose: A common mistake, with uncommon results.
My Friend Jake: Meet a 400 pound gorilla - who likes to read.
My Toilet and I: This song is based on a true story of plumbing gone terribly wrong!

Never Kool: Cigarettes are never cool in any situation!
1907: My great great grandpa was there to celebrate when Oklahoma became a state!
No Alcohol For Me: When other kids pressure you to drink, what are you going to say?
No Blues at All: A punny love song.
No Go Tell: Three things to do if you are bothered by a stranger and need to get help.
Nursery Rhyme Rock and Roll: Favorite nursery rhymes set to a rock & roll beat.

Oddballs Singing Around: An exercise in recording weirdness.
Oklahoma Annie: An Oklahoma cowgirl rides an Oklahoma pony named Oklahoma Annie, who can do anything!
Oklahoma Heroes at the Library: It's a foot stomping, rope swinging barrel of fun - can you guess the Oklahoma hero in each verse?
Oklahoma Kids: a Kaleidoscope: We are Oklahoma kids, we are Oklahoma's future, we shine bright with every color, a kaleidoscope.
Oklahoma Land Rush, 1889: What's your plan of action when the bugler blows?
Out on the Beach: Family fun in the sand and sun.

Pandamonium at the Library: What happens when you teach a little mouse to read?
Patrick the Packrat: You'll find all kinds of cool stuff in Patrick's pockets - but one thing you'll never find is tobacco!
Paws Claws Scales and Tales: Do you know these famous pets from books?
Paws Claws Scales and Tales Reprise: It's all about a bond of love!
A Pet Like That: Wouldn't it be cool to have a pet like the ones you read about in Dr. Seuss?
Pizza, Pizza: If you were a pizza, what kind would you be?
Play It On Your Nose: Did you know you have a musical instrument in the middle of your face?
Pop Up Sit Down: It's a song about opposites, and you'll get your exercise.
The Princess and the Farmer's Son: Our hero subdues a dragon and wins the heart of a princess, all because he loves to read a story!

Roswell, New Mexico: Visitors from space find a fun hot spot on an out of the way planet.
Roundy Round: A song about planetary motion, guaranteed to make you dizzy. Winner of a 2001 CMW award.

Santa's Laugh: That might be Santa, but how do we know?
Silly Song: This is a silly silly silly silly silly silly silly silly silly silly silly silly song!
Skeleton Dance: An instrumental.
Sleep Little Devil: An unconventional but still sweet lullaby.
Smoker's Waltz: Nicotine is a deadly dance partner that won't let go...
Something I Ate: A kid fantasizes about swallowing his family.
Stargazer: Could it be that when I look out into space, somebody's out there looking back at me?
Stampede to Read, original: Written for a 1996 Oklahoma reading campaign.
Stampede to Read, version 3: A rewrite of Stampede to Read, this version is on the 1999 cassette of the same title recorded for Oklahoma Libraries.

Take Me to Your Library: Meet a new friend from beyond...
There's a Vampire in Our Basement: An older brother warns of monsters in the house - but when it comes to the spider under the bed...
There's Something Going On at the Library: It's a Mystery! The singer encounters apparitions at the library.
This Red Ribbon: This red ribbon says I'm drug free!
Tickle You Blue: The tickle monster's gonna getcha!
To the Monsters in My Closet: Sing this before you go to bed to keep the monsters out of your head.
Topologically Speaking: Topology is a graduate level subject in mathematics. (Not to be confused with topography!!)
Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet: A rude little troll visits, and he won't go away...
Tropeo the Pirate: What does a ruthless pirate do with two runaway kids?
Tsunami Band: Rocking out underneath the ocean.

Using Your Imagination: You could become a space-bound rocket ship...

Villa Villekulla Hula: I wish I could be like Pipi Longstocking!

Way Out West: There are some mighty strange critters out there!
Weird Things Happen On Halloween Night: Each verse tells a creepy story.
The What-if Game: This song helps you visualize situations in which a stranger might pose a threat, and what to do about it.
The Wind Energy Song: The audience becomes a wind farm!

Yippi Yi Yo, the Last Wild Books of the West: Sadly, they are extinct now, but in the days of the old West, wild books roamed the land!
You're a Dinosaur: You get to become five different dinos in this song about dinosaur behavior.

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