OT: In Action

[William]

I get my thing in action (Verb!)
To be, to see, to feel, to live (Verb!)

That's what's happenin'

I put my heart in action (Verb!)
To run, to go, to get, to give (Verb!)
(You're what's happenin')

That's where I find satisfaction, yeah! (Yeah!)
To search, to find, to have, to hold.
(Verb! To be bold)

When I use my imagination (Verb!)
I think, I plot, I plan, I dream

Turning in towards creation (Verb!)
I make, I write, I dance, I sing

When I'm feeling really active (Verb!)
I run, I ride, I swim, I fly!

Other times when life is easy
(Oh!) I rest, I sleep, I sit, I lie.

(Verb! That's what happenin')I can take a noun and bend it,
Give me a noun -
(Bat, boat, rake, and plow)

Make it a verb and really send it!
(Show me how)
Oh, I don't know my own power. (Verb!)

I get my thing in action (Verb!)
In being, (Verb!) In doing, (Verb!)
In saying

A verb expresses action, being, or state of being.
A verb makes a statement.
Yeah, a verb tells it like it is!

(Verb! That's what's happenin'.)
I can tell you when it's happenin',
(Past, present, future tense)

Ooh! Tell you more about what's happenin',
(Say it so it makes some sense)

I can yell you who is happenin'!
(Verb, you're so intense)

Every sentence has a subject.
(Noun, person, place, or thing)

Find that subject: Where's the action?
Verb can make a subject sing.)

Take the subject: What is it? (What!)

What's done to it? (What!)

What does it say?
(Verb, you're what's happenin')

I can question, like: What is it?
(Verb, you're so demanding.)

I can order like: Go get it!
(Verb, you're so commanding.)



When I hit I need an object
(Verb, hit! Hit the ball!)

When I see, I see the object
(Verb, hit! Hit the ball!)

When I see,, I see the object
(Do you see that furthest wall?)

If you can see it there, put that ball over the fence, man!
Go ahead. Yeah, all right.
What?! He hit it. It's going, it's going, it's gone!
(What?!)

I get my thing in action.
(Verb, that's what happenin')

To work, (Verb!)
To play, (Verb!)
To live, (Verb!)
To looooove... (Verb!...)


Yeah, that's right, staying home with my kids today!!!

[Bradford]

Hey William, what's your function?

[old_school]

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
Hooking up words and phrases and clauses.
Conjunction Junction, how's that function?
I got three favorite cars
That get most of my job done.
Conjunction Junction, what's their function?
I got "and", "but", and "or",
They'll get you pretty far.

[spoken] "And":
That's an additive, like "this and that".
"But":
That's sort of the opposite,
"Not this but that".
And then there's "or":
O-R, when you have a choice like
"This or that".
"And", "but", and "or",
Get you pretty far.

[sung] Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
Hooking up two boxcars and making 'em run right.
Milk and honey, bread and butter, peas and rice.
Hey that's nice!
Dirty but happy, digging and scratching,
Losing your shoe and a button or two.
He's poor but honest, sad but true,
Boo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
Hooking up two cars to one
When you say something like this choice:
"Either now or later"
Or no choice:
"Neither now nor ever"
Hey that's clever!
Eat this or that, grow thin or fat,
Never mind, I wouldn't do that,
I'm fat enough now!

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
Hooking up phrases and clauses that balance, like:
Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
He cut loose the sandbags,
But the balloon wouldn't go any higher.
Let's go up to the mountains,
Or down to the seas.
You should always say "thank you",
Or at least say "please".

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
Hooking up words and phrases and clauses
In complex sentences like:
[spoken] In the mornings, when I'm usually wide awake, I love to take a walk through the gardens and down by the lake, where I often see a duck and a drake, and I wonder, as I walk by, just what they'd say if they could speak, although I know that's an absurd thought.

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
Hooking up cars and making 'em function.
Conjunction Junction, how's that function?
I like tying up words and phrases and clauses.
Conjunction Junction, watch that function.
I'm going to get you there if you're very careful.
Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
I'm going to get you there if you're very careful.
Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
I'm going to get you there if you're very careful.

[Kevan]

snap out of it!

[Fred D]

William,

Shouldn't you have been "Only a Bill, sittin up on Capitol Hill"?



Fred D

[Bruce K]

School House Rocks!

BK