Poetry Club (track)

"Poetry Club" is track 16 of the album Arthur and Friends: The First Almost Real Not Live CD (or Tape). It is recitation of poetry by Francine, Buster and Arthur with a percussive accompaniment. The poems were originally featured in the Arthur story "I'm a Poet." D.W. also inserts herself into the proceedings in her own unique fashion.

Poems
Buster

Time for poetry club.

Francine

My dad took me to a hockey game

I got hit on the head by a puck I yelled out &mdash; Ow! My head! Ow!

Call an ambulance! Ouch! Ow!

Oh, brother, this hurts!

Put ice on it!

It's gonna swell!

I got a big old purple lump on my head

And used it for show and tell.

Buster

These are the things that make me nauseous

Gloopy green gloop that drips from faucets

Blue hair that grows on slices of bread

When your big old dog drools in your bed.

When a dirty sock drops on your face, P.U.

When your friend's baby sister starts to spew

Half a worm in the apple you bit

Finding a human bone in your jello

Blowing nose-slime green and yellow

And people who eat creamed corn with their

mouths open so you can see it.

The end.

Arthur ("Jimmy in the City")

Jimmy was a happy ape until some hunters caught him

He liked the jungle better than the city where they brought him

The city was louder; the city was meaner

Even the dirt in the jungle was cleaner

So Jimmy made a daring escape

The hunters were suddenly minus one ape

He climbed the tallest building

Because from there he'd see

How far away the jungle was

From the middle of the city

Jimmy jumped into a passing plane

But the pilot didn't wait for him to explain

Jimmy flew back to the jungle and told his ape

friends in their lair

"The city's okay for a visit,

but you couldn't make me live there."

D.W.

Wacky, goofy, goony, screwy

Absolutely busalooey

Arthur

Hold it! Did you say "busalooey"?

D.W.

You're interrupting my poem.

Arthur

There's no such word... except in that song!

D.W.

You didn't say I couldn't read it. You just said...

Arthur

No "Crazy Bus"!