School of the Wild

There’s a school I know that’s kind of crazy
The principal is a chimpanzee
The teachers are turtles and tigers and storks
And some of my buddies have tongues that fork

School of the wild
School of the wild
Everybody’s living in the school of the wild

I never know what clothes to wear
‘Cause sometimes we have class
in the ozone layer
Then it’s into the ocean for gym
with the sharks
And music in the meadow
with the pines and the larks

Chorus

Have you ever asked a flea
how it jumps so high?
Or studied navigation with a butterfly?
Have you listened to a speech
given by a rock?
Or interviewed the insects
living on your block?

Chorus

Sometimes things get a little loud
What with the juncos and the
jaguars and the mandrill crowd
So the sea horse and the serval
and the rabbits say hush
You’ll scare us away
if you talk too much

Chorus

Like the birds and the bugs and
the big blue whales
The scallops and slugs and
everything with a tail
Be like them, get educated, child
Spend your days
in the school of the wild

Chorus

© 2007 Amy Martin

Vocals – The Missoula Coyote Choir, Laura Love, Bill Sims Jr.
Drums & Percussion – Allison Miller
Bass – Todd Sickafoose
Keys – Julie Wolf
Guitar – Adam Levy
Also featured – chimpanzee, ape, meadowlark, baboons, elephant, marsh

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