Schoolhouse Rock! quotes

Mother Necessity

With her good intentions,

Where would this country be

Without her inventions?

Orville, Wilbur, go outside this minute,

and there continue with your silly playin'.

Take those plans and take those blueprints!

Take that funny lookin' thing

Take that wheel, take that wing!

I can't hear a thing that Mrs. Johnson's sayin'!

When Robert Fulton made the steamboat go,

When Marconi gave us wireless radio,

When Henry Ford cranked up his first automo,

When Samuel Slater showed us how the factories go,

And all the iron and oil and coal and steel and Yankee don't you know,

They made this country really grow, grow, grow, grow,

With Mother Necessity and where would we be

Without the inventions of your progeny?

Guess I got the idea right here at school.

Felt like a fool when they called my name,

Talkin' about the government and how it's arranged,

Divided in three like a circus.

Ring one, Executive,

Two is Legislative, that's Congress.

Ring three, Judiciary.

See it's kind of like my circus, circus.

Helpin' wash the dishes

And I drop a cup.

Why does everything fall down

Instead of up?

Ridin' up a hill I spill

And hit the ground.

Wish I could fall up instead of always falling down.

I'm a victim of gravity.

Everything keeps fallin' down on me.

No matter where I go

That forces that I know,

Just a pullin' me down, down, down, down, down.

It's all around town now,

It's like a magnet deep inside the ground.

When I lift something up,

I can feel it pulling down.

They say our solar system is centered 'round the sun,

Nine planets, large and small, parading by.

But somewhere out in space,

There's another shining face

That you might see some night up in the sky.

Interplanet Janet, she's a galaxy girl,

A solar system Ms. from a future world,

She travels like a rocket with her comet team

And there's never been a planet Janet hasn't seen,

No, there's never been a planet Janet hasn't seen.

She's been to the Sun, it's a lot of fun,

It's a hot-spot, It's a gas.

Hydrogen and helium in a big, bright, glowing mass.

It's a star, it's a star! So Janet got an autograph!

Mercury was near the Sun so Janet stopped by,

But the mercury on Mercury was much too high,

So Janet split for Venus, but on Venus, she found

She couldn't see a thing for all the clouds around.

Earth looked exciting, kind of green and inviting,

So Janet thought she'd give it a go.

But the creatures on that planet looked so very weird to Janet,

She didn't even dare to say hello.

"It's a bird!"

"It's a plane!"

"Why, it must be a UFO!"

But it was Interplanet Janet. She's a galaxy girl,

A solar system Ms. from a future world

She travels like a rocket with her comet team

And there's never been a planet Janet hasn't seen

No, there's never been a planet Janet hasn't seen.

Mars is red and Jupiter's big

And Saturn shows off its rings.

Uranus is built on a funny tilt

And Neptune is its twin,

And Pluto, little Pluto, is the farthest planet from the Sun.

They say our solar system is not alone in space.

The Universe has endless mysteries.

Some future astronaut

May find out that what he'd thought

Was a shooting star instead turned out to be... Interplanet Janet, she's a galaxy girl,

A solar system Ms. from a future world,

She travels like a rocket with her comet team.

And there's never been a planet Janet hasn't seen,

No, there's never been a planet Janet hasn't seen!

I'm a machine, you're a machine

Everybody that you know

You know, they are machines.

To keep your engine running you need energy

For your high-powered, revved-up body machine.

Your high-powered, revved-up body machine.

There's a great new craze that's sweeping the nation

Come on, do the Circulation!

It starts with your heart, what a great sensation,

Yeah, come do it, circulate!

Out through your arteries, in through your veins,

Your heart pumps your blood then it does it again.

Come on, everybody, get it on, everybody.

Circulation!

So come on, everybody, get it on, everybody.

Circulation!

Energy...

Sometimes I think I'm runnin' out of energy

Seems like we use an awful lot for

Heatin' and lightin' and drivin'

Readin' and writin' and jivin'

Energy ... You'd think we'd be savin' it up.