Schoolhouse Rock! quotes

Energy ... We're looking to try and find some new kinds.

Energy ... Exploring to try and make a new find.

Nuclear and thermal and solar,

If we miss we'll get colder and colder.

Energy ... We've gotta stop usin' you up.

Minus bones you're just a blob,

Being framework's their main job.

All your organs, muscles, too,

They need your bones to hold them safe and sound inside for you.

Your heart and lungs are tucked away,

In there behind your ribs.

Those bones have been protecting them

Since we were little kids.

When you're in the dark and you want to see,

You need uh... Electricity, Electricity

Flip that switch and what do you get?

You get uh... Electricity, Electricity

Every room can now be lit

With just uh... Electricity, Electricity

Hey, there's a telegraph line,

You got yours and I got mine.

It's called the nervous system,

And everybody understands

Those telegram commands

And you know that everybody better listen!

The central nervous system

Is the brain and the spine.

The brain controls the system

And the spine is the line.

Telegrams come in

To tell what's happening to you,

Then telegrams go out

To tell your body what to do

Gotta get me some dollars and sense,

Dollars and sense;

Them green-back bills with the pictures of the Presidents.

Here's the song I'm doing, gonna fill in you all about tax.

Tax is that familiar melody, simple and true.

Hum it if you've earned a dollar or two.

Bucks in billions for the government for whatever they do.

Anyone who earns a living gives more than a few.

So schools can be their best, so our roads will have no cracks;

Someone fix those train tracks!

I hear you callin' Uncle and I'm payin' my tax.

We can stop buying groceries,

But that might be a mistake;

'Cause eating is a habit I'd be loath to try and break.

We can stop paying income tax,

But they might send me to jail.

And if we don't pay the mortgage,

Then they'll take our house;

Then where would we get our mail?

If not for all these bills and taxes,

Our income would more than suffice.

I feel like a real big cheese

Until everybody takes a slice!

Well there goes my allowance.

I didn't plan ahead.

I made some bad choices, and I compared prices too late.

I guess I'll have to find a way to earn some more.

But that shouldn't be too hard.

Maybe I can do an extra household chore;

Like wash the car,

Or mop the floor,

Or maybe help clean up the back yard.

I still get seven-fifty once a week.

But now I learned some money management technique.

And I can save enough

To buy some real cool stuff.

And I made my little fortune so to speak,

On only seven-fifty, once a week.

That's my allowance.

Seven-fifty once a week.

There's something huge

Red, white, and blue

That's grazing in D.C.

It's gobbling up the taxes

That are paid by you and me

It doesn't seem to notice

We really can't afford

The billions that it's costing us

To pay its room and board

It doesn't roam

But seems content

To dwell on Capitol Hill

As long as trucks keep pulling up

With tons of green-back bills

We've got to feed the big guy

We really can't forget

It has an awesome appetite

Tyrannosaurus Debt.

I'll give you this for that

That for this

We'll make a trade called "barter"

I'll give you this for that

That for this

We'll have it made with barter.