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As Alfred and I wrote more and more songs for children, we began to envision them as a kind of musical. We wrote this song to give Owl and Rabbit another chance to play their xylophone in the musical and to speak about how they share the two mallets or beaters to get the job done.

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Top Of The Scale

Owl said we’ve got a problem.
We want to play xylophone –
with just two beaters between us,
can’t do it alone.

So if I take the low notes,
and you play above,
we can beat this together,
hand in glove.

If we play just a note at a time
we’ll get there in the end.
Play with me key by key,
won’t you please,
‘cause I’m glad you’re my friend.
Is our song just as wee as a bee
or as wide as whale?
Well, we’ll know that we’re done
when we come to the top of the scale.

We jumped through the Wondarium.
What strange folk have we met?
A friendly Hippo and Bear
who found his tea rather wet.

We spelled out a rainbow,
bathed poor Rose in a cup,
farmed our dreams until Roscoe
woke us all up.

It’s time to go home now.
Owl and Rabbit must sleep.
Can’t keep time with their beaters,
these creatures are beat.

You’ve been such a great audience.
We’d like to take you all home
with Hippo, Bear, Owl, and Rabbit
and their xylophone.

credits

from The Wondarium – Limited Edition Handprinted, released October 15, 2021
Music and Lyrics by Jeni Hankins, Lulu Wall Music, BMI,
and Alfred John Hickling, Sweet Pea Music.

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Jeni Hankins London, UK

Jeni Hankins grew up in the coalfields of Appalachian in Southwest Virginia among a family of miners, moonshiners, and journalists. Her writing pulls the grit, gumption, and keen sense of observation out of that heritage like drawing water from her grandmother’s well.

In every song, Jeni’s “true sense of place shines through – old as the hills, but brand new at the same time.”
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