I remember growing up alongside "VeggieTales" stories and characters. Although not always very biblically accurate, they did a great job of encouraging moral behavior and fostering excitement for learning about God. To this day, the songs still find their way inside my head from time to time, but I definitely appreciate the hilarious lyrics much more now than when I was five. For this, they deserve a little reminiscing and recognition. In ascending order of excellence, here are the top 15 lyric samples from our favorite "VeggieTale" tunes.
15. "Song of the Cebu"
Larry: Oh look, a cebu! Cebu!
Jimmy, Jerry & Junior: Cebu!
Larry: No, wait ...that's a water buffalo.
Jimmy, Jerry & Junior: No more song about cebu! Need another verse or
two! Audience is standing and leaving, bye-bye moo, bye-bye moo, bye-bye
moo, bye-bye moo moo moo moo
Jimmy: I want my money back!
Jerry: Yeah, that'd be...that'd be good.
The tongue twister quality of this song is fantastic.
14. "The Hairbrush Song"
Narrator: Yes, good has been done here. The Peach exits the scene.
Larry smiles, but, still feeling an emotional attachment for the
hairbrush, calls out ...
Larry: Take care of my hairbrush. Take care, oh my hairbrush. Take
care, take care, don't dare not care. Take care. Nice hair. No fair.
Take care, take care...of my hairbrush.
If you are a true "VeggieTales" fan, you must know this classic!
13. "Keep Walking"
The awesome power of this wall, we've clearly demonstrated
Ah, but out here in this hot hot sun, perhaps your dehydrated?
I pity them Philippe, ah, meh wee, Jean Claude, meh wee
Won't you join me in my irritating little song?
It would be an honor
This was the one time we were a fan of those annoying peas.
12. "Busy Busy"
We're busy, busy, dreadfully busy
You've no idea what we have to do.
Busy, busy, shockingly busy
Much, much too busy for you.
Insert humor to the parable of the Good Samaritan? Challenge accepted.
11. "Water Buffalo Song"
Stop it. Stop! Stop right this instant! What do you think
you're doing?! You can't say everybody's got a water buffalo when everybody
does not have a water buffalo! We're going to get nasty letters saying,
"Where's my water buffalo? Why don't I have a water buffalo?" And are you
prepared to deal with that? I don't think so!
That sassy tangent, though.
10. "I Love My Duck"
Now concentrate dear Louis,
And I think you will agree.
The most important person
In the whole wide world is ....... me!
So please don't drag me down
With all the people and their troubles.
Go run some water in my tub to
Freshen up my bubbles!
Yeah, Louis. Bubbles, pronto. Pronto!
9. "Pizza Angel"
I set the table with a paper plate
How would I know that it'd be late?
It's taken so long, where could it be?
Had a thirty minute guarantee
Every time I order a pizza, this is me.
8. "Jonah Was A Prophet"
When I was a boy I went to church back home in Arizona
And that is where I heard the tale of a man whose name
was Jonah
Now Jonah was a prophet, but that's not why he's
remembered
They tell the tale, Cause in a whale he nearly was
dismembered!
Fair enough. Dismemberment is kind of a big deal.
7. "Grapes of Wrath"
As we go driving by
I may spit in your eye
Or throw a snake in your milkshake
To make you cry
'Cause we're the grapes of wrath
So stay out of our path
There's no escape from cranky grapes
We are the grapes of wrath
Having read the book "The Grapes of Wrath," I sometimes get frustrated with this one, but I also wonder if "You Can't Stop the Beat" from "Hairspray" had some "VeggieTales" fans as writers.
6. "In The Belly of The Whale"
Woke up this morning kinda blue,
Thinking through that age-old question:
How to exit a whale's digestion?
It might behoove me to be heaved.
Head out like a human comet.
Hmmm... I wonder what rhymes with comet.
Every songwriter has to appreciate this.
5. "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything"
Well, I've never plucked a rooster and I'm not too good at
ping-pong, and I've never thrown my mashed potatoes up against the wall,
and I've never kissed a chipmunk and I've never gotten head lice, and
I've never been to Boston in the fall!
Every verse gets better and better in this jewel of the "VeggieTales" crown.
4. "Love My Lips"
Ten days after I turned eight, got my lips
stuck in a gate! My friends all laughed. And I just stood there until
the fire department came and broke the lock with a crow bar and I had to
spend the next six weeks in lip rehab with this kid named Oscar who got
stung by a bee - right on the lip - and we couldn't even talk to each
other until the fifth week because both our lips were so swollen, and
when he did start speaking he just spoke Polish and I only knew like
three words in Polish except now I know four because Oscar taught me the
word for lip: Usta!
I dare you to read this without laughing, let alone listening to the song without laughing.
3. "Oh No! What We Gonna Do"
We could give him jelly doughnuts
Take them all away
Or fill his ears with cheese balls
And his nostrils with sorbet
We could use him as a footstool
Or a table to play Scrabble on
Then tie him up and beat him up
And throw him out of Babylon
One of my personal favorites. Those punishments scream creativity.
2. "Cheeseburger"
And if the world suddenly ran out of cheese
He would get down on his hands and knees
To see if someone accidentally dropped
Some cheese in the dirt
And he would wash it off for you
Wipe it off for you
Clean that dirty cheese off
Just for you
My dad would always come sing this alongside the movie, but I appreciate the writing so much more now, making that memory even better.
1. "Belly Button"
You say your belly button's missing
There's no reason for alarm
It's a common thing for gourds
It won't do you any harm
You're technically a fruit
And with that much being said
Your umbilical equivocal
Is up there on your head
Could any song be put above this one? I could honestly quote the whole thing for best lyrics all around, but I will leave that for your Google searching pleasure.
