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00:00 (upbeat music)

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00:15 - Is everybody here?

00:42 - Yes, teacher.

00:44 - Suzy Sparrow.

00:45 - Here, teacher.

00:46 - Bertie Birdbrain.

00:48 - Here, teacher.

00:49 - The Canary Sisters.

00:51 - Here.

00:52 - Here.

00:54 - Penelope Pinfeather.

00:55 (Penelope humming)

00:57 - Here, here, here, here, here, here, here.

01:01 - Here.

01:04 (upbeat music)

01:06 - Today's lesson will be about

01:08 something we really can't do without.

01:10 - Hot food?

01:11 - No, about something everybody loves.

01:15 - Money?

01:18 - No, the subject, ah yes,

01:22 the subject for today is melody.

01:24 - A melody, like when you get sick?

01:27 - No.

01:28 ♪ M-E-L-O-D-Y, melody ♪

01:30 ♪ The subject for today will be a melody ♪

01:35 - Gosh, teacher, what is a melody?

01:37 - Now, if you take a few notes, say two.

01:40 (piano notes)

01:41 Or three.

01:42 (piano notes)

01:44 Or four.

01:45 (piano notes)

01:48 You can always add more.

01:49 (piano notes)

01:51 And pupils, what have you got?

01:53 - What have you got?

01:54 ♪ You've got a melody ♪

01:57 - Great!

01:58 Now let us fly to nature and lend an ear

02:01 to the multitude of musical sounds we hear.

02:04 - I don't hear nothing.

02:05 - Gosh, that's better.

02:09 ♪ When there are big chirps in the warm spring ♪

02:11 - I love it.

02:12 ♪ And the cricket rubs his wings together ♪

02:14 ♪ When the wind blows free through the willow tree ♪

02:17 ♪ Mother nature's busy making melody ♪

02:22 ♪ Oh, the bird and the cricket and the willow tree ♪

02:25 ♪ Yes, the bird and the cricket and the willow tree ♪

02:27 ♪ Oh, you don't need a ticket for the concert ♪

02:29 ♪ In the ticket from the birdie ♪

02:31 ♪ And the cricket and the willow tree ♪

02:33 - The willow tree?

02:34 ♪ The bird and the cricket and the weeping willow tree ♪

02:40 - Now of all the creatures on this earth,

02:42 only two species can sing.

02:45 Us, birds, and this animal called Homo sapiens.

02:50 - Homer Sapphens?

02:52 - Man to you.

02:55 You see, he even makes melody when he talks.

03:00 Why, what do you mean?

03:02 (trumpet playing)

03:05 What do you know about that?

03:08 (trumpet playing)

03:10 And the female of the species

03:12 is even more musical than the male.

03:15 Here we have an example of a few,

03:17 of overlapping melodies.

03:20 - Listen, Mabel, I've got the real dirt on this certain,

03:22 you know, who you won't believe it.

03:23 Besides, you'll laugh yourself to death.

03:24 (all chattering)

03:27 - We have here a child.

03:31 (all chattering)

03:34 Quiet!

03:36 Now we have here a chart we drew.

03:38 (all screaming)

03:43 Now we have here a chart which will clearly demonstrate

03:46 how our lives are lived from A to Z,

03:49 step by step to a melody.

03:52 ♪ We are born ♪

03:56 ♪ We are born ♪

03:58 (upbeat music)

04:05 ♪ We go to school ♪

04:08 ♪ Oh, how happy I will be ♪

04:10 ♪ When I've learned my A, B, C ♪

04:14 ♪ Higher education ♪

04:17 (all cheering)

04:20 ♪ Mating season ♪

04:27 ♪ Bring to me only with thine eyes ♪

04:32 (upbeat music)

04:35 ♪ We've married ♪

04:41 ♪ Here comes the bride ♪

04:43 ♪ And there goes the groom ♪

04:47 - The prime of life.

04:49 (all cheering)

05:00 We begin to resent our birthdays.

05:03 (upbeat music)

05:05 That first gray hair.

05:13 We are beginning to slow down.

05:22 (all screaming)

05:25 We are about finished.

05:28 (upbeat music)

05:30 We go to our reward.

05:36 ♪ Old and golden slippers ♪

05:42 ♪ Old and golden slippers ♪

05:44 ♪ Golden slippers have wine to wear ♪

05:46 ♪ To walk the golden street ♪

05:48 Next, we'll discuss inspiration.

05:53 I want each one of you to draw me a picture

05:55 of something we make melodies about.

05:59 Susie Sparrow.

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06:06 ♪ Take a lemon drop moon in a marshmallow sky ♪

06:13 ♪ Take a candy cane kid with a gleam in his eye ♪

06:19 ♪ When in walks a dream from heaven above ♪

06:26 ♪ Then a song fills his heart ♪

06:30 ♪ And he sings of love ♪

06:35 ♪ Love, love, love, love, love, love, love ♪

06:41 Penelope Pinfeather, recite your piece.

06:45 ♪ Sailing, boating upon the ocean blue ♪

06:49 ♪ Gave the inspiration for this song we sing to you ♪

06:53 ♪ A life on the ocean wave ♪

06:55 ♪ A home on the rolling deep ♪

06:59 Here's another one.

07:02 ♪ Oh, the old iron horse went a chugging along ♪

07:04 ♪ Chugging along, chugging along ♪

07:06 ♪ Oh, the hammer, the rails with a bucket full of nails ♪

07:08 ♪ Singing the railroad song ♪

07:11 Don't forget cowboys.

07:13 ♪ Get along, get along, get along ♪

07:15 ♪ With a coyote yippee and a yippee aye ♪

07:18 And engines.

07:19 (imitating engine)

07:22 ♪ Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie ♪

07:30 Are there any more?

07:35 ♪ Motherhood, motherhood ♪

07:43 ♪ Gives one a thrill that no other could ♪

07:47 ♪ Beautiful, beautiful motherhood ♪

07:52 ♪ Oh, we sing about the moon ♪

07:59 ♪ We sing about the rain ♪

08:02 ♪ We sing about steamboats ♪

08:04 ♪ And we sing about planes ♪

08:08 ♪ We sing about beauty ♪

08:10 ♪ But the fact remains that we never ♪

08:15 ♪ We never ever sing about brains ♪

08:19 Now students, in conclusion I wish to point out

08:24 that beautiful symphonies are often created

08:28 from simple melodies like the bird and the cricket

08:31 and the willow tree.

08:33 (drumming)

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09:33 ♪ The bird and the cricket and the willow tree ♪

09:54 ♪ And the willow tree ♪

09:57 (upbeat music)

10:03 (dramatic music)

10:06 (whooshing)

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