Lyrical Looks

Tune your ears to the sounds of music

as you imagine yourself switching the dial 

 and hearing snippets of songs 

played on various radio stations.

Scroll down through the following photos, 

 read some famous lyrics,

learn their authors' names,  

and view photo representations 

of some of life's greatest hits.

(Prepare to get an earworm!)

"Look around, look around, how lucky we are to be alive right now..."

(Lin-Manuel Miranda)

"Immigrants, we get the job done."

(Lin-Manuel Miranda)

"You can't see it

It's electric

Boogie woogie woogie"

(Bunny Wailer)

"The sun will come out tomorrow."

(Charles Strouse)

"Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset, 

swiftly go the days."

(Sheldon Harnick)

"Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind."

(Johnny Nash)

"Like a bridge over troubled water. I will lay me down."

(Simon & Garfunkel)

 

"Hooray for Hollywood!"

(David Anthony Katz, Sam S. Hollander, and Tyler Aaron Glenn)

"When you're down and troubled...you've got a friend."

(Carole King)

"What's new pussycat?"

(Tom Jones)

"He rocks in the treetops all day long...rockin' robin"

(Bobby Day)

"So bye-bye, Miss American Pie"

(Don McLean)

"Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me."

(Jill Jackson-Miller & Sy Miller)

"There are secrets on a leaf, 

In the water, in the air, 

Hidden planets, tiny worlds, 

All invisible!" 

(L. Ahrens & S. Flaherty)

"I feel the earth move, under my feet..."

(Carole King)

"Let's go fly a kite!"

(Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman)

The wonderful thing about Tiggers...their bottoms are made out of springs."

(Richard M. Sherman)

"Ride a painted pony let the spinnin' wheel spin."

(Blood, Sweat & Tears)

"Big wheel keep on turnin'"

(Creedence Clearwater Revival)

"Truckin'"

(The Grateful Dead)

Bookseller: "That one? But you've read it twice!"

Belle: "Well, it's my favorite!"

(Howard Ashman & Alan Menken)

"ABC, easy as 1,2,3"

(The Jackson 5)

"Life ain't nothin' but a funny funny riddle!"

John Denver

 

 

"It's not easy being green."

(Joe Raposo)

         

"New York, New York

I want to wake up in the city, that doesn't sleep"

(Frank Sinatra)

 "Now is the time to seize the day,

Stare down the odds and seize the day"

(Alan Menken)

"This is my kinda town, Chicago is"

(Frank Sinatra)

"Here comes Peter Cottontail,

Hoppin' down the bunny trail

Hippity hoppin', Easter's on its way"

(Gene Autry)

"We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing."

(Anonymous)

"At the cross, at the cross, I surrender my life."

(Chris Tomlin)

"Rolling, rolling, rolling...

Keep them doggies rolling!"

(Ned Washington)

"Happiness is a warm blanket."

(Charles M. Schultz)

PAWS and "Sing, sing a song, make it simple to last your whole life long."

(The Carpenters)

~ Magnus Pym